Any major change or innovation in a large area of a city usually means a certain population is getting left in the dust. World premiering at Tribeca Festival on June 11 and coming to Washington D.C.’s DC/Dox on June 15, Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg’s new documentary Emergent City zeros in on a turbulent decade at the edge of a changing Brooklyn, specifically as it relates to Industry City, the largest privately owned industrial property in New York, as rents and sea levels rise. Ahead of the premiere, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer and poster.
Here’s the synopsis: “Global developers seek to transform the waterfront Brooklyn complex into an ‘Innovation District,’ or what the New York Times called ‘the SoHo of Sunset Park.’ Divergent stakes draw battle lines between the local, primarily Latino and Chinese immigrant communities, the city council and Industry City’s developers.
Here’s the synopsis: “Global developers seek to transform the waterfront Brooklyn complex into an ‘Innovation District,’ or what the New York Times called ‘the SoHo of Sunset Park.’ Divergent stakes draw battle lines between the local, primarily Latino and Chinese immigrant communities, the city council and Industry City’s developers.
- 6/6/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Trish Dalton and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge will open the 23rd edition of the Tribeca Festival. Photo: Anne Katrin Titze
In the Spotlight Documentary program Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg’s (co-founder of the Meerkat Media Collective) Emergent City on the Sunset Park community efforts to reign in the developers of the waterfront property now known as Industry City in Brooklyn, New York and Dana Flor’s 1-800-on-her-own on the professional and personal journey singer/songwriter/activist Ani Difranco (who is currently starring on Broadway in Anäis Mitchell’s Hadestown) has taken to remain an independent voice in the music world, plus in the Midnight section Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil's Bath (Des Teufels Bad) starring Anja Plaschg (who is also the composer as Soap&Skin), shot by Martin Gschlacht (Silver Bear winner in the 2024 Berlin Film Festival), executive...
In the Spotlight Documentary program Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg’s (co-founder of the Meerkat Media Collective) Emergent City on the Sunset Park community efforts to reign in the developers of the waterfront property now known as Industry City in Brooklyn, New York and Dana Flor’s 1-800-on-her-own on the professional and personal journey singer/songwriter/activist Ani Difranco (who is currently starring on Broadway in Anäis Mitchell’s Hadestown) has taken to remain an independent voice in the music world, plus in the Midnight section Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil's Bath (Des Teufels Bad) starring Anja Plaschg (who is also the composer as Soap&Skin), shot by Martin Gschlacht (Silver Bear winner in the 2024 Berlin Film Festival), executive...
- 6/3/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Searchlight’s Nomadland won the marquee Best Feature category on Thursday to cap the 36th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, the final big awards show ahead of Sunday’s Oscars. The Chloé Zhao film, a frontrunner all movie-awards season, won a leading four trophies tonight in the virtual ceremony, including Director and Editing for Zhao and Cinematography for Joshua James Richards.
“In our film Bob Wells says to Fern that you’ve come to the right place to connect with your tribe, your community and independent film you are our community,” producer Mollye Asher said during the Nomadland team’s acceptance speech. Added fellow producer Dan Janvey: “We couldn’t have done it without all the hearts and hands of our fellow collaborators, our fellow filmmakers, who were the Nomadland Company, so to all of you we accept this on your behalf.”
The marquee indie-focused awards show hosted by...
“In our film Bob Wells says to Fern that you’ve come to the right place to connect with your tribe, your community and independent film you are our community,” producer Mollye Asher said during the Nomadland team’s acceptance speech. Added fellow producer Dan Janvey: “We couldn’t have done it without all the hearts and hands of our fellow collaborators, our fellow filmmakers, who were the Nomadland Company, so to all of you we accept this on your behalf.”
The marquee indie-focused awards show hosted by...
- 4/23/2021
- by Patrick Hipes and Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
The trick with any documentary about complex, arcane legal and political issues is to figure out a way to make them accessible to audiences. With her second feature film, Sundance pickup “Dark Money,” producer-director Kimberly Reed saw a way to engage moviegoers — by scaring them about the role of money in politics as well as offering hope.
Born and raised in Montana, Kimberly Reed made her 2008 debut with “Prodigal Sons,” which detailed her journey back home to Helena for her 20th high school reunion, where she reunited with her buddies on the football team for which she had played quarterback. After producing “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” and “Paul Goodman Changed My Life,” she was so upset by the controversial Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United, which allowed corporations unlimited spending in election campaigns, that she wanted to make a documentary about it. Two years later, she saw her way in.
Born and raised in Montana, Kimberly Reed made her 2008 debut with “Prodigal Sons,” which detailed her journey back home to Helena for her 20th high school reunion, where she reunited with her buddies on the football team for which she had played quarterback. After producing “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” and “Paul Goodman Changed My Life,” she was so upset by the controversial Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United, which allowed corporations unlimited spending in election campaigns, that she wanted to make a documentary about it. Two years later, she saw her way in.
- 7/20/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The trick with any documentary about complex, arcane legal and political issues is to figure out a way to make them accessible to audiences. With her second feature film, Sundance pickup “Dark Money,” producer-director Kimberly Reed saw a way to engage moviegoers — by scaring them about the role of money in politics as well as offering hope.
Born and raised in Montana, football quarterback Paul McKerrow began his transition to female after he went to college. Kimberly Reed’s 2008 debut “Prodigal Sons” detailed her journey back home to Helena for her 20th high school reunion. After producing “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” and “Paul Goodman Changed My Life,” she was so upset by the controversial Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United, which allowed corporations unlimited spending in election campaigns, that she wanted to make a documentary about it. Two years later, she saw her way in.
She...
Born and raised in Montana, football quarterback Paul McKerrow began his transition to female after he went to college. Kimberly Reed’s 2008 debut “Prodigal Sons” detailed her journey back home to Helena for her 20th high school reunion. After producing “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” and “Paul Goodman Changed My Life,” she was so upset by the controversial Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United, which allowed corporations unlimited spending in election campaigns, that she wanted to make a documentary about it. Two years later, she saw her way in.
She...
- 7/20/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
In her first directorial feature since debuting a decade ago with the memorable first-person documentary “Prodigal Sons” (about the filmmaker’s own family issues and gender transition), Kimberly Reed returns to her home state for a broader political inquiry. “Dark Money” looks at how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has unraveled nearly a century of relatively clean politicking in Montana, clouding the Big Sky state with an influx of corporate-funded smear campaigns and legislation of dubious pedigree.
It’s a case study all too applicable to the nation at large in an era when moneyed interests seem to be trumping (ahem) citizens’ will and welfare on every front. After premiering at Sundance in January, this potent investigative piece is continuing to travel the festival circuit, its next stop being the Full Frame Documentary fest in Durham, N.C., on April 8. PBS, which acquired the doc in March, has...
It’s a case study all too applicable to the nation at large in an era when moneyed interests seem to be trumping (ahem) citizens’ will and welfare on every front. After premiering at Sundance in January, this potent investigative piece is continuing to travel the festival circuit, its next stop being the Full Frame Documentary fest in Durham, N.C., on April 8. PBS, which acquired the doc in March, has...
- 4/4/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
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