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April 20, 2008
Eliopoulos' personal film digs deep
Asbury Park Press
"GREETINGS FROM Asbury Park," which will have its premiere May 31 at the New Jersey International Film Festival at Rutgers University, is both a personal and a national story, said its filmmaker, Christina Eliopoulos of Eatontown.Eliopoulos began making a movie in 2001 that was meant to be "an exploration of my family history" in Asbury Park and the changes the city had experienced during the course of 50 years.
But when her great-aunt Angie Hampilos, 92, was told by the city of Asbury Park that her home was in the zone slated for condemnation to make way for redevelopment, the movie took on a larger and more urgent perspective.
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"The God's honest truth is that I had no idea when I started filming that this issue (of eminent domain) was so massive. But I did more research and I started getting phone calls and letters from people saying, "This is happening in Brooklyn. This is happening in Philadelphia.'
Posted by amy at April 20, 2008 4:34 PM