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IMA Alumni Megan Sperry and Daniel Phelp’s Screening

An evening of CUNY documentaries, including our own Megan Sperry and Daniel Phelps’ feature length documentary The Domino Effect at DOCWORKS NYC.

The Domino Effect is a film that explores the process of real estate development in New York City and digs deep to uncover the complex networks of banks, developers, politicians, and non-profit organization that shape our cities. During the last decade, the communities of Williamsburg and Greenpoint in North Brooklyn have experienced the negative impacts of excessive luxury development and gentrification more than any other neighborhoods in New York. Told through the voices of longtime residents, the film conveys the personal impact of gentrification while also shedding light on issues encountered by residents of cities all across the country. For more information about the film:

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Prof. Martin Lucas will be screening “TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS, BITE THE BULLET”

FILM SCREENING: TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS, BITE THE BULLET

A film by James Gaffney, Martin Lucas and Jonathan Miller
48 minutes, color, 1980

Lang Recital Hall, Room 424 Hunter North

Focusing on the 1970s fiscal crises in New York City and in Cleveland, Ohio, TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS, BITE THE BULLET looks at the root causes of fiscal crisis in American cities, and the political responses to it. Using animation, news footage, and exclusive interviews, the film is an enlightening history of a difficult period. Screened at the 1980 New York Film Festival, TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS, BITE THE BULLET provides rare insight into the economic and political environment in which the Times Square Show was produced.
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IMA alumni Melissa Nicolardi and Kalim Armstrong’s screening

IMA alumni Melissa Nicolardi and Kalim Armstrong will be screening The Pass It On Project at Roulette, on Atlantic Ave at 3rd Ave in Brooklyn following the TEDx conference on Freedom and Democracy: Education for Change. The screening will be free and open to the public (doors 3PM, screening 3:20PM) immediately after the conference.

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