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On May 24, 2010, various members of the film industry attended a screening of the film 'Without a Home' at SmogShoppe in Culver City, California. The film, which is director Rachel Fleischer's debut film, is a documentary that deals with Fleischer's experiences talking to homeless people in Los Angeles. It received a Juror Commendation for Best Documentary Feature at the Durango Independent Film Festival. BroadwayWorld brings you full coverage below.

Elsewhere on this website, we’re serializing a multi-part interview with filmmaker Rachel Fleischer and her actor-comedian father Charles. Don’t know him? He’s the voice of Roger Rabbit. Which brings us to my anecdotes.

First, the backstory. The day after Thanksgiving 1987, I went to see Penn & Teller on Broadway along with my publicist pal Jeff Walker and his son Orion (in from La for the Creation convention that weekend). At intermission, we ran into producer Frank Marshall, a fellow magic buff in town to run a marathon before returning to California and two long-planned extra weeks shooting Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which had wrapped principal live-action photography a year previously). These were the Toontown blue-screen sequences as well as some live-action scenes and minor stuff to be reshot. I mentioned how much I was looking forward to Roger Rabbit. Frank Marshall smiled.

Two weeks or so later, I...

To read part one of this feature, please click here.

Pamela: You grew up in Bel-Air, right?

Rachel: I grew up a block away.

Pamela: I was in Belmont Shore. We were taught that anything outside Belmont Shore and Long Beach was gang-infested. There were these weird mental walls set up about what territory was appropriate.

Charles: For us, it was more about stores. No Wal-Mart, no Mervyn’s. The quality is not good. Stores in makeup. Off-the-shelves Revlon? Trash.

(The women babble a bit about makeup at this point).

Pamela: Sorry, girl talk.

Charles: [She] always had a things for cameras, too. Always had an amazing eye.

Pamela: Did she start drawing first?

Charles: Nah, she sort of inched into drawing.

Rachel: Yeah, I still draw the same exact things.

Charles: And her writing...to this day I’ve never seen anyone who could combine surrealism and the heart. I’m a surrealist,...

Not so long ago, a Will Ferrell vehicle called The Land Of The Lost was unleashed upon theater goers and treated with a rather dismal response. That film’s directorial assistant, Rachel Fleischer, simultaneously showed off her own film to a more selective audience at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills. Without A Home, an independent documentary about the lives of the homeless on Skid Row, has garnered underground praises from the like of director David Lynch, and received ecstatic praise from its audiences.

Fleischer comes from a family of talent. Her father, Charles, was the voice of 80s film star and talking doodle Roger Rabbit, (who is pictured right on the cover of Starlog #134) as well as a prolific comedian and live-action actor. The creator of such bizarrely brilliant concepts as Moleeds, Fleischer’s humor involves quite a bit of minute analysis of patterns within our universe. Conversations...