Crushing Wheelchairs
Release Year: 2025
Country: USA
Directors: Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia and Adrian Diamond
Writer: Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia
Producers: Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia, Muteado Silencio, and Adrian Diamond
Currently and formerly houseless youth, families, and disabled elders from California have created a movie about their lives and their ancestors lost to the ongoing violence of homelessness, evictions, gentrification, police terror, and sweeps.
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About the directors
Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher, single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled, indigenous mama Dee, and the co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, co-editor of Decolonizerâ’s Guide to a Humble Revolution, Born and raised in Frisco, and Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth.
Adrian Diamond is a multi-hyphenate Film/TV/Music creator born and raised in LA. The son of an African-American father and Portuguese immigrant mother, Adrian got his start in the entertainment industry at a young age after starring in Disney’s musical “The Lion King.” He is a graduate of Harvard College’s interdisciplinary Social Studies program and toured the world singing jazz a cappella with The Harvard Din & Tonics.
