No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial is a powerful and intimate documentary that sheds light on a deeply overlooked aspect of the homelessness crisis: people’s grief following the death of someone they care about. Through the voices and stories of individuals living with unstable housing, the film explores what it means to grieve without a house, and how loss echoes through a community already struggling to survive.

Centered around the creation and meaning of the White Cart Memorial—a grassroots, mobile tribute to unhoused lives lost—the film weaves together research, personal lived experience testimonies, community organization reflections, and future action plans for the city of Kelowna in British Columbia, Canada. This film captures the emotional and logistical challenges of grieving in public spaces.

This film is both a tribute and a call to action. A tribute to those who died without shelter and to those who continue to grieve without the support, safety, or stability they deserve. It calls on communities, institutions, and society at large to confront how we ignore the grief of unhoused individuals and how simple acts of compassion and remembrance can be transformative.

Dedicated to the memories of all unhoused lives lost—and those who carry their grief forward—No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial urges us to rethink how we hold space for mourning in public, and how we can come together to build more compassionate, inclusive systems of care. Because only through community can we create safer places to grieve, to heal, and to remember.

VIEW THE TRAILER (1:36)

Film length: 45:07

Producers/Directors

• Joshua Black, PhD – Bereavement Initiative Manager, BC Centre for Palliative Care (BCCPC)
• Stephanie Laing, PhD(c), MSW, RSW – Director of Operations, Kelowna Homelessness Research Centre (KHRC)

Filmography by Paul Cotton Films

This film has been funded in part by a contribution from Health Canada, Health Care Policy and Strategies Program through the Pan-Canadian Palliative Care Research Collaborative Seed Funding program, the University of British Columbia Okanagan Eminence program, and BC Centre for Palliative Care. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of those who funded the project.

Our documentary will be released and available to the public in June 2026 – keep an eye on www.whitecart.ca.