Grappling with a new development project, residents in a Brooklyn community stare down the triple threat of climate change, deindustrialization, and gentrification.
Director/Producer
Kelly Anderson is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker whose documentaries include My Brooklyn (America ReFramed), Every Mother's Son (POV/ITVS), and Out At Work (HBO). Her work has received the Tribeca Audience Award, a GLAAD Award, and a national Emmy nomination. She currently chairs the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College.
Director/Editor
Jay Sterrenberg is a New York-based director, editor, and a founder of Meerkat Media Collective. Editing work includes Dark Money (POV), After Maria (Netflix), Trophy (CNN), and Peabody and Independent Spirit Award-winner Immigration Nation (Netflix). He directed Public Money (POV), about an experiment in participatory democracy in Sunset Park.
Producer
Brenda Avila-Hanna is a Mexican filmmaker and educator whose work connects to the complexities within transnational identities. She is a Sundance Producers Lab Fellow, a recent Rockwood/Just Films Fellow and a DOC NYC Documentary New Leader. She is a board member of the Watsonville Film Fest and a professor at UCSC.