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1) My Brooklyn
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My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson's journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Fulton Mall, a bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district that - despite its status as the third most profitable shopping area in New York City - is maligned for its inability to appeal to the affluent residents who have come to live around it. As a hundred small...
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In a hidden corner of Brooklyn, change is anything but straightforward...Chronicling the changing fortunes of Red Hook, Brooklyn, A Hole in a Fence is a documentary that explores the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing one of New York City’s most unique neighborhoods. It’s the story of a vanished homeless community and the young architect who documented it; of an urban farm run by local kids amidst a landscape of industrial...
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National Teachers Academy (NTA) is a top-ranked, high-achieving elementary school just south of downtown Chicago, with a thriving population of mostly low-income and Black students. But, as the neighborhood grows and gentrifies, a parents’ group eager for a high school in the community seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. As the Chicago Public Schools administrators, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the city's politicians debate the...
4) Shine
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Two brothers, once East Harlem's best Salsa dancers, are separated after the death of their father, only to be reunited years later on opposing ends of gentrification.
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Tells the interconnected stories of a group of racially diverse New Yorkers who rub elbows at Raskin's, a venerable Brooklyn diner and New York City institution whose Jewish owner has just revealed his plans to sell the place off to make way for condominiums and newer, more "gentrified" establishments. Told over the course of a single workday, the story challenges conventional assumptions about class and racial identity. If you think you know everyday...
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The human duplicators: Love means never to say "I'm colonizing your planet" in this tale about an alien, the cybernetic physicist he controls and the blind girl he falls for.
Escape 2000: A generic and nefarious corporation gentrifies a Bronx neighborhood to death in the service of creating the city of the future.
The horror of party beach : A coastal town grapples with mutated fishmen who crash a beach party in a hideous fashion.
Invasion of the...
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English
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Del, a quick-witted young man from the streets of South Central Los Angeles, learns that his still-in-prison father and just-out-of-jail uncle stole a million dollars and stashed it in the basement of an old flophouse. There's just one problem: A major university is encroaching on the hood and that old flophouse is a newly gentrified (all-white) fraternity house.
9) The exiles
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"[C]hronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles -- transplants from Southwest reservations -- as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance." -- Container.
10) The lost village
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"The Lost Village is a devastating expose of how Greenwich Village, the epicenter of the counterculture in the 1960s and 70s, is being turned into a wasteland of chain stores, banks and multi-million dollar condos. This award-winning documentary follows filmmaker Roger Paradiso on a journey through today s Village as he tries to figure out how this gentrification on steroids got started. Talking to journalists, activists, shop-owners, professors and...
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A searing expose of the growing affordable housing crisis in America, this intimate documentary focuses on one of the country's most iconic and income divided zip codes. Once a mecca for artists, outsiders, and a thriving Black community, Venice is now the frontline for America's heated battles over gentrification, lack of affordable housing, and homelessness. Featuring interviews with leading politicians, local stakeholders, homeless advocates, and...
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