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MBFHBM is a warm, infectious look at street life in Berkeley CA. without the sob stories or radical conflicts. Instead, its an ecstatic snapshot of people who are thrilled to be alive and can barely contain it.

This is MY Big Fat Homeless Berkeley Movie. I made it while living on the streets from 2005-2006. Not everyone in the film is homeless but they often perfer the company of street people or consider themselves "family".

"I'm here covering space vacations, flying saucers and rocket vacations with populations across 60,000 other galaxies. That, and I'm stalking some movie star, too."

Matthew Silver is having a perpetual, personal revolution. He and his freinds go around doing outrageous things in order to inspire wackiness to break out everywhere.

Robert is a student of international conflict resolution psychology at UC Berkeley and served in the ANC.

'Nethra may be a guy on the corner in a bathrobe with a Fisher Price PA, but he's got an important message for you that's not so crazy: do it yourself.

Screwy Lewie is a longtime regular on Telegraph Ave. He plays Dylan songs on the sidewalk during the day and he produces his own community TV show, The Video Time Machine.

Patrick has shaken the world more than once. He broke the Mr. Twister story out of Santa Cruz that made international headlines, has beat innumerable "humbug" charges meant to keep him from doing it again, and, here, he talks about why he, not Julia Butterfly Hill, started the Maxxam Headwaters lawsuit in Humboldt County.

Mitch is another longtime denizen of the Ave. While blowing through $100,000 in settlement money from an undisclosed lawsuit, Mitch gave me enough to get the camera that made this movie. Then he spent the rest of the day buying up all the live chickens in Chinatown and freeing them in Golden Gate Park.

Alan has his own perspective on things. His heart has no love for the mind's dishonesty so it skips ahead to his mouth and alot of people don't understand him.

Harold is the most lovable guy you'll never be able to have a meaningful conversation with. They say he took 10,000 mics of LSD 25 in 1969 and never came back. However, it's had about the best effect that can be hoped for, under the circumstances; He's blissful most of the time, he's gentle, polite and never asks anybody for anything. Still, I don't reccomend massive acid trips to find happiness.

PC is a cancer survivor who prefers hanging out in the streets to his self-described "piss-sink hotel" in Oakland.

Julian is a modern Hindu bhakti, a temple joker and one helluva guy. Turns out he's not a bad ragtime pianist, either.

MBFHBM will soon be available on FilmBaby.com. Until then, contact me at johnnyallenshaw@hotmail.com to order your copy for $10 plus shipping.