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IMA alum Ryan Joseph and Prof. Kelly Anderson screening “Rabble Rousers” in Cuba

Rabble Rousers in cuba

Editor Kathryn Barnier, filmmaker and IMA alum Ryan Joseph and IMA professor Kelly Anderson are sharing their film, Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square this weekend at the Festival Internacional de cine documental Santiago Álvarez in Cuba!

The film won Best Director at the Santiago Alvarez Festival, and got a special award for Journalistic Excellence from Radio Havana Cuba.

About the film:

In 1959 New York City announced a “slum clearance plan” by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

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