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CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS

By Adrian DIAMOND, Lisa "tiny" GRAY-GARCIA

GREEN DIAMOND PROJECTS - as PROD

Thriller - Completed 2025

Cast aside by society like trash, a group of poor people living in a homeless community struggle to find hope amid gentrification, domestic violence and the brutality of the State.

The film stars formerly unhoused residents of the San Francisco Bay Area. Produced in partnership with POOR Magazine.

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San Francisco Women Film Festival 2025
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    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Social issues, Crime
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 118 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Adrian DIAMOND, Lisa "tiny" GRAY-GARCIA
    • Producer(s)
    • Adrian DIAMOND (Green Diamond Projects), Lisa "tiny" GRAY-GARCIA (POOR Magazine), Muteado SILENCIO (POOR Magazine)
    • Synopsis
    • CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS is a social justice thriller film about the violent machinery of poverty in modern America.

      The film traces the descent of a group of people into homelessness...

      ...a Black woman veteran struggling to preserve her home amidst rising gentrification...

      ...a poor mother in an abusive relationship struggling to raise and protect her teenaged son...

      ...an incarcerated mother who lost her kids to the state and is now plagued by terrifying memories of her family’s dissolution...

      ...a homeless man surviving on collecting aluminum cans who is targeted by an unhinged tech-worker...

      ...and a hard-working immigrant laborer facing eviction and addiction...

      The character’s lives intersect at a houseless encampment community in Oakland where the city deploys giant machines and police terror to sweep away their belongings, tents, wheelchairs and bodies. Ultimately, the story traverses past and present, death and the afterlife, and explores the triumphs of the human spirit that can never be crushed.

      Starring the talents of POOR Magazine—the noted California arts & activism collective—the film features a remarkable cast and crew of unhoused and formerly unhoused residents of the San Francisco Bay Area who brought their real-life stories to the screen.

      The film was adapted from the heart-wrenching play written by prominent poverty scholar, author and activist “Tiny” Lisa Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine, and was produced in partnership with LA-based multi-hyphenate filmmaker, Adrian Diamond, under his production company, Green Diamond Projects.

      CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS is a boundary breaking film that invites audiences into the harsh world of homelessness, told directly from the people who struggle against it everyday but who rarely (if ever) are the ones in front of or behind the camera.
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