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SACRAMENTO — Empty Streets, the award-winning short film tells the story of “Johnny” and his troubles in society due to being a homeless veteran. “Empty Streets” takes place over the course of one night, and is based on real events in the life of a Marine veteran who returned home from combat with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and no government benefits.
The film was shot in Sacramento, Modesto and Lodi, California.
Empty Streets is the directorial debut of Sacramento producer/director Paul Booth and the newest project by Sacramento writer/editor/designer Kendyce Manguchei.
“Empty Streets” features music by Grammy winners Willie Nelson and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and multiple Grammy-nominated blues musicians Charlie Musselwhite and Jimbo Mathus, as well as hip-hop group Righteous Movement, who is nominated for Sacramento News & Review Music Awards.
“This film was made to help veterans and shed light on how the government does not help all of them when they come home from war,” says Paul. “The fact that my film helped a veteran with a past experience is all I care about. A WWII veteran saw our premiere and said, ‘Good job, you captured how I felt when I came home.’ That’s what really touched my heart.”
Empty Streets has screened in St. Louis at the Veterans for Peace National Convention, colleges and universities in Hawaii, art house cinema in Honolulu, at the Northern California Film Festival in Modesto, Calif., and Sky-Fest Film Festival in North Carolina, and has been on world wide webcasts.
As a producer, Paul has films available on DVD from Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and Netflix, including Blood of the Samurai, Ghost Game, and Greeley’s Field (Australia, New Zealand, U.K.). For Time Warner Cable Honolulu, Paul has produced an action miniseries, “Ninja EX,” and numerous segments for a behind-the-scenes show about the film industry, “Hawaii Reel Stories.”
Empty Streets will be available on Amazon.com this year.
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