IFP, FilmWax & reRun theater present, "MY BROOKLYN"
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IFP PRESENTS
"MY BROOKLYN"
A SPECIAL RUN!
March 8th- March 14th
Two Shows Nightly!
Friday March 8th:
6:45pm DOORS/ 7:30pm SCREENING
Special guest at 7:30pm screening: Lenina Nadal, Communications Director at Right to the City and a New Yorker who grew up shopping at Fulton Mall every weekend, will discuss how Brooklyn fits into a growing national movement fighting urban gentrification and displacement. Director Kelly Anderson will also be present.
9:30pm DOORS/ 10:15pm SCREENING
Saturday March 9th:
8:30am DOORS // 9:00am SCREENING
11:00am DOORS // 11:30am SCREENING
1:30pm DOORS // 2:00pm SCREENING
Special Guest at 11:30am screening: Angela Tucker, Producer/Director of the PBS web series Black Folk Don't, will have a conversation with My Brooklyn Director Kelly Anderson and the audience about the ways race factors into urban planning and debates about gentrification.
Director Kelly Anderson will be present at the 2pm screening for Q&A.
Sunday March 10th:
6:45pm DOORS/ 7:30pm SCREENING
Rob Robinson, of the National Social and Economic Rights Initiative (NESRI), will discuss displacement as a human rights issue. Co-Producer Lisa Willis will moderate the discussion.
9:30pm DOORS/ 10:15pm SCREENING
Monday March 11th:
6:45PM DOORS/7:30PM SCREENING
Special guest at 7:30pm screening: Nathalie Alegre from the Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN) will discuss the city-wide picture for accountable development and job creation, including how these issues might factor into the upcoming city-wide elections.
9:30PM DOORS/10:15PM SCREENING
Tuesday March 12th:
6:45PM DOORS/7:30PM SCREENING
Special guest at 7:30pm screening: James Bartlett, Executive Director of MoCADA, will discuss the cultural value of spaces like the Fulton Mall and the impact of new development on Brooklyn’s artistic community. Director Kelly Anderson will also be present.
9:30PM DOORS/10:15PM SCREENING
Wednesday March 13th:
9:30PM DOORS/10:15PM SCREENING
Thursday March 14st:
6:45PM DOORS/ 7:30PM SCREENING
SOLD OUT
Special Guest at 7:30 screening: Christine Gaspar from the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) will talk about how CUP is using the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement around development and land use issues. Associate Producer Fivel Rothberg will moderate.
9:30PM DOORS/10:15PM SCREENING
Through its first two weeks at reRun, My Brooklyn has ignited conversation and community interest. People have been squeezed into every corner.
Conversations have spilled out into the hallways and streets -- about gentrification, about what we like about the new Brooklyn and what we miss about the old, about how we can be better neighbors and citizens of our communities, about the Bloomberg legacy and the possibilities offered by the upcoming elections, and about the cultural and artistic value of public spaces like Fulton Mall.
If you’ve already seen the film, bring friends, spread the word, and join us again from March 8 - 14 to keep this dialogue and phenomenon going. And if you haven’t seen the film, we hope you’ll come out to Brooklyn and join our conversation.
As a hundred small businesses are replaced by high rise luxury housing and chain retail, Anderson uncovers the web of global corporations, politicians and secretive public-private partnerships that drive seemingly natural neighborhood change. The film's ultimate question is increasingly relevant on a global scale: who has a right to live in cities and determine their future?
“Anyone who cares about real cities, and real rights to the city, needs to watch My Brooklyn,” says Don Mitchell, a Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University and the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award.
This coming spring the film will be at the Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, MS, as well as in a film series in Oakland, CA that explores connections in urban planning between Brooklyn and Oakland.
