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June 1, 2011
Big Screen Brooklyn
Brooklyn Based
This week marks the return of Brooklyn’s answer to Sundance and Cannes, the annual Brooklyn Film Festival. The cinematic fun kicks off this Friday with a screening of Battle for Brooklyn, a documentary that traces the Atlantic Yards project, and Develop Don’t Destroy’s opposition, from its roots to the contentious groundbreaking and the Goldsteins’ eventual eviction. The film will be screened at Brooklyn Heights Cinema as part of an opening night celebration that also includes an afterparty at powerHouse Arena. If you prefer your screenings outdoors in the summer, Rooftop Films will screen it again (for free) on June 9 in Fort Greene Park.
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BATTLE for BROOKLYN is an intensely intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by owners and residents facing condemnation of their property to make way for the controversial Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets in the heart of Brooklyn. Shot over seven years and compiled from almost 500 hours of footage, BATTLE for BROOKLYN is an epic tale of how far people will go to fight for what they believe in.
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6/3, 8 PM filmmakers Suki Hawley, Mike Galinsky and David Beilinson’s documentary the Battle for Brooklyn, which confronts the destructive effects of gentrification, notably the graft and fraud-ridden Atlantic Yards arena and parking-lot project where private property was illegally seized by a real estate swindler through an eniment domain claim. At the Brooklyn Heights Cinema; also screening 6/9 at 9 PM at Myrtle Avenue Hill in Ft. Greene Park, free; and on 6/11, 8 PM at Indie Screen, 285 Kent Ave., Williamsburg. A weeklong run begins on 6/17 at Cinema Village in Manhattan.
Posted by eric at June 1, 2011 9:32 AM