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June 13, 2009
Tonight - Screening of "Brooklyn Boondoggle" At Freddy's
Meerkat Media Collective
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Freddy's Bar & Backroom (485 Dean St.)
Saturday, June 13th
Mixer from 5-8pm, Screening at 7pm
On Saturday, June 13th at 7pm The Meerkat Media Collective's new short film, BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE will screen at Freddy's Bar & Backroom (485 Dean St.)
Exploring the highly controversial Atlantic Yards project, BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE questions the trend of top-down urban development and asks, what if we were allowed to decide the future of our own neighborhoods?
The 11 minute film takes to the streets and talked to our neighbors about their feelings about the project. We talked to folks who are being kicked out of their homes, business owners hoping for increased sales, young people hoping for jobs and families concerned that the development would lower their quality of life.
Since there are already a lot of people doing good, in-depth investigative work into the project such as Norman Oder's Atlantic Yards Report Blog and Isabel Hill's long form documentary "Brooklyn Matters", this film simply tries to start a dialogue about this kind of top-down, corporate-led development, and use the example of Atlantic Yards as a case study that can be used in any city that is experiencing these kind of issues to begin to rethink this model and imagine alternatives.
While the story of the Atlantic Yards has been raging on , as it has already been widely debated, we hope to use this film as a cautionary tale and do what only a short doc can do best- inspire insight and action.
Posted by steve at June 13, 2009 1:47 PM