PTFF Pics is a monthly program put on by the Port Townsend Film Festival. Your ticket purchase supports our organization and the filmmaker, as half of all ticket sales go straight to the filmmaker! Thank you for supporting the arts and independent film.

This month’s Pic is generously sponsored by the Port Townsend Public Library in conjunction with their Community Read program featuring “House Lessons'' by Erica Bauermeister. Thanks to Friends of the Library here in Port Townsend, we’re bringing March’s PTFF Pic free of charge!

COMMUNITY FIRST, A HOME FOR THE HOMELESS, is a documentary introducing an innovative new model for transforming the lives of homeless people through the power of community. The film tells the story of leaders and residents at Community First! Village, a 27 acre, master planned development providing affordable, permanent housing for hundreds of chronically homeless people in Austin, Texas. Twenty percent of the residents at the Village have never been homeless but choose to live there as support. The Village also offers a variety of micro enterprises providing the residents an opportunity to make a dignified income. As the founder Alan Graham explains, “housing will never solve homelessness but community will”.

COMMUNITY FIRST, A HOME FOR THE HOMELESS illustrates how the sense of community at the core of the Village is transforming the lives of our homeless brothers and sisters.