A night of film and laughs, and a virtual appearance by Margaret Cho via the magic of the world-wide web. Featuring a Q&A panel with the Director, #BeRobin cast and crew, and a discussion on how to keep the #BeRobin movement alive and how to use #BeRobinTheMovie to promote compassion.
#BeRobinTheMovie is a documentary by award-winning film maker Kurt Weitzmann about Margaret Cho’s homeless outreach campaign in 2014, inspired by the philanthropy of the late comedian and actor Robin Williams. After the death of her dear friend Robin Williams, Margaret Cho took to the streets of San Francisco with the mantra “Don’t grieve Robin, BE Robin.”
What began as busking on the streets of San Francisco with a guitar case and a sign rapidly turned into hundreds of musicians, comedians, and activists offering food, clothes, money, and awareness in an amazing humanitarian street theater experience #BeRobinTheMovie captures the exuberance and spirit of these events; it is not only entertaining, but deeply moving. And above all, it is inspiring. #BeRobinTheMovie is an important film with a simple, rallying call to action. It is a movie about the highly contested issue of homelessness — with no villains, and no fingers pointed. What it does possess is a fundamental humanity, compassion, and hope. Within it lies a powerful learning tool showing us all how a little kindness can make a person and the world around her heal through the simple act of giving.
