Melissa Phillips
@melissaphillips.bsky.social
Creative Director
Photographer/Filmmaker
Los Angeles / Montréal / Haïti
Photographer/Filmmaker
Los Angeles / Montréal / Haïti
My short film, ‘I am Gustavo’, is publicly available for the first time. Gustavo Otzoy, Guatemalan immigrant and friend, was one of 200 unhoused residents who were forcibly evicted from Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles in 2021. Watch now: vimeo.com/1099912805
I am Gustavo (Short Film)
Gustavo Otzoy, a Guatemalan immigrant, was one of 200 unhoused residents who were forcibly evicted from Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles in 2021. This short film offers…
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August 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
My short film, ‘I am Gustavo’, is publicly available for the first time. Gustavo Otzoy, Guatemalan immigrant and friend, was one of 200 unhoused residents who were forcibly evicted from Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles in 2021. Watch now: vimeo.com/1099912805
Excellent reporting. Honoured to have played a small part in this.
“It had felt like a community, but it felt like this community was being destroyed. And that was really sad, and it was scary,” says @melissaphillips.bsky.social, an LA-based filmmaker who witnessed the decampment of Echo Park Lake. bit.ly/46G7rU8
Sport Capital USA
Podcast Episode · State of Play: Summer Games · S1 E5 · 18m
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March 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Excellent reporting. Honoured to have played a small part in this.
Beautiful and important exhibition opened earlier this month sharing the history and stories from the forced displacement of the Echo Park Lake encampment. (A few of my photos are also featured.) If you’re in LA, consider visiting. Open through the end of March.
ANNOUNCING "TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake" an exhibition about infrastructures of community, envisioned by housed & unhoused organizers. Opening Feb. 1, visitors are invited to reflect on LA's many histories, including the present moment. challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/01/10/t...
February 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Beautiful and important exhibition opened earlier this month sharing the history and stories from the forced displacement of the Echo Park Lake encampment. (A few of my photos are also featured.) If you’re in LA, consider visiting. Open through the end of March.
All People’s Health Collective partnered with F4GI and put together this great resource to donate directly to over 900 incarcerated firefighters who’ve been battling the wildfires in California, saving homes and lives, for as little as $10.24 a day.
Donate directly to incarcerated firefighters via All People’s Health Collective: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Bit.ly/FirefighterGI
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January 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
All People’s Health Collective partnered with F4GI and put together this great resource to donate directly to over 900 incarcerated firefighters who’ve been battling the wildfires in California, saving homes and lives, for as little as $10.24 a day.
Please take a moment to get caught up on some excellent reporting by @globalreportingcentre.org on mass displacement events like the Olympics that exacerbate the houselessness crisis in cities like Paris, Vancouver and LA.
“It had felt like a community, but it felt like this community was being destroyed. And that was really sad, and it was scary,” says @melissaphillips.bsky.social, an LA-based filmmaker who witnessed the decampment of Echo Park Lake. bit.ly/46G7rU8
Sport Capital USA
Podcast Episode · State of Play: Summer Games · S1 E5 · 18m
bit.ly
January 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Please take a moment to get caught up on some excellent reporting by @globalreportingcentre.org on mass displacement events like the Olympics that exacerbate the houselessness crisis in cities like Paris, Vancouver and LA.
@lacanetwork.bsky.social is doing the important work. Be sure to follow on Bluesky. ✊🏻
With Kevin de León recently defeated in last week's election, we revisit this video from earlier this year when Skid Row residents were forced to endure cruel sweeps in extreme heat. Our work continues, fighting for the rights of poor communities and demanding change.
November 12, 2024 at 11:41 PM
@lacanetwork.bsky.social is doing the important work. Be sure to follow on Bluesky. ✊🏻
Just here to remind everyone that housing is a human right.
November 28, 2023 at 7:50 PM
Just here to remind everyone that housing is a human right.