[RSCT] final list of recommended films and other materials for teaching about gentrification

[S. Kashdan]

Greetings all,

Here, below, is my  final list of recommended films and other materials for
teaching about gentrification, for adults and/or children. It is a
compilation of suggestions received. I haven't had the time to check them
all out. You should check to see if each one is appropriate for your
context.

Thanks much to everyone who wrote with suggestions.

Sylvie Kashdan

final list of recommended films and other materials for teaching about
gentrification

"East of Liberty- The Fear of Us" The film is the second part in a series

about the gentrification of the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Here's a few links to trailer.

WHOLE STORIES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNfhGhIgk8M

BAKERY SQUARE (10 minute clip)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwW44XKzCh4

Contact: Chris Ivey

hyperboymedia at gmail.com



CAAAV (Center Against Anti-Asian Violence) made a

video about gentrification in NYC Chinatown. There's info on

their website:

http://www.caaav.org

Chinatown Is Not For Sale! video

Chinatown is Not For Sale! (2002, 43 minutes)

A new video about Manhattan's Chinatown community struggle against
gentrification and displacement. This video examines the impact of racist
real estate

practices in Chinatown and how low income Chinese tenants are displaced to
"make room" for young white professionals. The film also includes footage of

CJP's efforts to combat this displacement. Chinatown is Not For Sale! was
directed and produced by Youth Organizers of the

Chinatown Justice Project

of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities.

>> $150 institutional, $50 low income

Contact:

CAAAV Main Office

2473 Valentine Ave

Bronx, NY 10458

justice at caaav.org

tel: (718) 220-7391 x 11

fax: (718) 220-7398

http://www.caaav.org/resources

Also see:

Eating Welfare documentary

Eating Welfare (2000, 58 minutes)

Documentary by the

Youth Leadership Project

This film challenges the success of workfare programs by exposing the way in
which more than 500,000 families in New York City were pushed off the
welfare

rolls in the 1990s. Eating Welfare traces the journey of Southeast Asian
refugees from war-torn Vietnam and Cambodia to the Bronx and examines the
impact

of federal welfare reform measures on them after their arrival. The film
shows the creative approaches taken by the refugee community, particularly
young

people, to stop the most damaging reform measures. Eating Welfare makes
visible to viewers what may be an unknown community and connects it to
poverty

and the impact of welfare policies on communities of color throughout the
U.S.

To order this video, please send a request for an "Eating Welfare" order
form to

welfare at caaav.org

, or call (718) 220-7391, x 16.

>> $150 institutional, $50 low income

Quinceañera, a feature film about Echo Park, L.A.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451176/

The House We Live In, the 3rd part of the PBS 3-part series: Race: The Power
of Illusion

A great read aloud: The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw
Mengenstu

Renaissance 2010 on the Frontlines

http://video.google.com/videoplay'docid=4615357395093985456

about the connections among NCLB, privatization of public schools, and
gentrification in Chicago.

short film made by young people who are affected by gentrification:

http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=3_Jcg0CdKXI

"Boom: The Sound of Eviction," about Gentrification in San Francisco

"Flag Wars," about gentrification in Cincinnati

"Chocolate City," about gentrification in Washington DC.

Although partly a comedy (and fictional), Be Kind Rewind is ultimately about
gentrification.

film about gentrification: All for the Taking

allforthetaking web site:

http://www.allforthetaking.org/

rap song on gentrification:

http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=4ixL3-AdOsU&feature=related

film made by a group from Detroit, Invincible, titled "Locusts" a hip-hop
documentary, featuring music, poetry and eyewitness accounts of the city's
problems and some grassroots solutions being tried.

film called "Finding Common Ground New Orleans" by Walidah (of
GoodSista/BadSista from Portland.

film called The HIDMO gentrification Video, which was made by Donna Denina,
and is about gentrification in Seattle.

Kevin Keating's Giuliani Time

William Miles's I Remember Harlem

Natasha Florentino and Tamara Gubernat's Rezoning Harlem

Ed Morales and Laura Rivera's Whose Barrio

Barry Shear's Across 110th Street

Maria Clara's Life on Christopher Street

Paul Mazursky's Next Stop Greenwich Village

Jenny Livingston's Paris is Burning

Ben Solomon's Captured

Mansee Kong's Here to Stay

Sean Baker's Take Out

Christine Choy's From Spikes to Spindles

Charlie Ahearn's Doin' Time in Time Square

Allan Moyle's Times Square

Melvin Frank's The Prisoner of Second Ave.

The Case Against Lincoln Center

Christine Noschese's Metropolitan Ave.

Hal Ashby's The Landlord

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

Booker Sim's Tragedy: The Story of Queensbridge

Hye Jung Park's 7 Train an Immigrant Story

Also check out the Right To The City Alliance

http://www.righttothecity.org