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November 1, 2007
Brooklyn Matters Screening at Toronto's Regent Park Film Festival
NowToronto.com
By Deirdre Swain
REGENT PARK FILM FESTIVAL (November 7 to 11)
Befitting its provenance, the Regent Park Film Festival is all about community and preservation.
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For a less local, more sophisticated take on preservation, check out Brooklyn Matters (both films screen November 10), a devastating indictment of the Frank Gehry-designed Atlantic Yards development that will, the film charges, disrupt neighbourhoods, cause traffic nightmares and damage the environment without providing any real benefit to the community. Although highly biased against the project, it's a fascinating case study of how class and race get wound up in development disputes, one that's relevant to Toronto's continual battles with developers.
NoLandGrab: If depicting a deeply flawed, frustrating and un-democratic political process is "highly biased," then questioning the wisdom of the war in Iraq is probably unpatriotic.
More screening info about Brooklyn Matters can be found at www.brooklynmatters.com.
Posted by lumi at November 1, 2007 5:18 AM