Taylor's Campaign premiered at the Denver Film Festival in October 1997 during one of the worst autumn blizzards in history, shutting down the city. The film director and festival liaison went to a nearby bar and brought the customers into the theater to beef up the audience.
The filmmaker showed the film in the living room of his apartment twice a week for four months and the screenings were frequently listed in the Los Angeles Times calendar as an "excellent documentary at the 11th Street Documentary Salon".
Martin Sheen agreed to narrate the film during a break he took from washing dishes at Bread and Roses in Venice California which serves breakfast to people who are homeless or hungry. The dish washing sink is still called Lake Estevez.
Though the film has been called the best documentary on homelessness in this era, it has been refused broadcast.
The director's favorite screening was in an alley outside the Los Angeles Catholic Workers food line known around skid row as the Hippie Kitchen. Martha, one of the Catholic Workers, held an umbrella over a large TV monitor to eliminate the noon glare on the screen from the sun; popcorn was served to people who enjoyed the bargain matinee after eating a late brunch in the hippie kitchen.