Parkite’s film “I Have a Name” urges all: Let’s Be Better Humans

PARK CITY, Utah — Adam Bronfman, executive producer of the documentary “I Have A Name,” hosted a screening of the film at Temple Har Shalom in Park City on Wednesday. The event came just two days ahead of panel discussions and workshops scheduled at The Impact Lounge during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

The film, narrated by artist and activist Jon Linton, explores the realities of houselessness across the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. Linton’s movement, Let’s Be Better Humans, provides both material support through a mobile bus and emotional inspiration to those in need.

One poignant moment in the film features Chuck, a man living on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona, who remarks, “Hope, there’s no such thing. They need to take that word out of the dictionary.”

The well-attended film was presented to a veritable who’s-who from the Park City non-profit sector including the Park City Community Foundation, Youth Sports Alliance, The Peace House, The Park City Hospital, The RISE Fund, the Summit Land Conservancy, Jewish Family Service, the Weilenmann School, the Park City Arts Council, and the People’s Health Clinic.

Bronfman has been a Park City resident for decades. His name is not only prominently displayed on the synagogue building in which his film was shown, but also but also on the building of the National Ability Center Ranch, where, he explained to TownLift, his now-adult son on the Autism Spectrum made many social connections, and enjoyed many athletic endeavors. 

Regarding the Synagogue, he told TownLift, “It was a pleasure and a privilege to be a member of the Park City Jewish Community back before there even was a name of or a building for Temple Har Shalom, and it still is to this day.”

“I’m lucky so many people came to see the film. Park City is a particularly interesting community within our within our country. We know that taking care of the people in our society who may be more vulnerable members, and providing the resources to make sure that they have what they need benefits everybody,” Bronfman told TownLift. “We have a very special town here, and I think that that that’s because the people in Park City care so much about community. Having the chance to to bring a message of hope and of of care and of compassion to a community that already recognizes those are important things, is an opportunity for which I am thankful.”

On Sat. Jan 25, at 10 a.m., Bronfman will be leading an open-to-the-public, immersive, interactive forum entitled The Intersection of Filmmaking, Philanthropy, and Life-Centered Design. It will address storytelling and design as catalysts to seeing the welfare of all life on Earth as an actionable objective.

Bronfman said to the invited audience on Wednesday, “This film is in the spirit of the Jewish central idea of Tikun Olam, which means the repair of the world.” 

Theorem Media, the production company with which Bronfman is a partner, had the short documentary’s first screening at Arizona State University in 2024, it’s following screening was later last year at the John’s Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, and The next screening will be in Washington D.C in February.