Lasting Scars
BROOKLYN, THE GAME
By Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean with Fivel Rothberg, Laurie Sumiye and Alyssa Katz
NGO Partner: Pratt Center for Community Development
Lasting Scars is about the largely invisible way that private economic elites are reshaping cities along lines of race and class in the 21st century. The story is told through the eyes of Director Kelly Anderson who, despite her white “gentrifier” status, finds herself increasingly unable to afford the Brooklyn neighborhoods she has long called home. When conflict ensues over a plan to remake the historically black Fulton Mall, a profitable shopping district and beloved social and cultural hub, local tensions mount and Anderson is prompted to investigate neighborhood change more deeply. Only when she begins to unravel connections between her changing backyard and deeper historical patterns of urban investment and disinvestment do the ultimate forces driving the transformation of today’s cities emerge. The film’s ultimate question becomes how to restore democracy to a planning process that has been hijacked by the interests of a privileged few. At the Producers' Institute, the team developed Brooklyn: The Game, which will invite participants to tour Brooklyn neighborhoods using their smart phones to explore the rich and diverse history of Brooklyn, understand how it's being threatened by top-down megadevelopment projects, and what they can do to get involved.
BROOKLYN, THE GAME
By Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean with Fivel Rothberg, Laurie Sumiye and Alyssa Katz
NGO Partner: Pratt Center for Community Development
Lasting Scars is about the largely invisible way that private economic elites are reshaping cities along lines of race and class in the 21st century. The story is told through the eyes of Director Kelly Anderson who, despite her white “gentrifier” status, finds herself increasingly unable to afford the Brooklyn neighborhoods she has long called home. When conflict ensues over a plan to remake the historically black Fulton Mall, a profitable shopping district and beloved social and cultural hub, local tensions mount and Anderson is prompted to investigate neighborhood change more deeply. Only when she begins to unravel connections between her changing backyard and deeper historical patterns of urban investment and disinvestment do the ultimate forces driving the transformation of today’s cities emerge. The film’s ultimate question becomes how to restore democracy to a planning process that has been hijacked by the interests of a privileged few. At the Producers' Institute, the team developed Brooklyn: The Game, which will invite participants to tour Brooklyn neighborhoods using their smart phones to explore the rich and diverse history of Brooklyn, understand how it's being threatened by top-down megadevelopment projects, and what they can do to get involved.
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