Right to the City

IndyVideo and Paper Tiger Television present a 3-part DVD on the Right to the City (RTTC) Alliance in New York City. In a city run by moneyed interests, a united front is forming to win the real and lasting changes needed to make the city a place that provides decent living conditions for majority of New Yorkers, not just the wealthy few.   More info...

Homecoming Queens

For the first time, a group of residents at Green Chimney's Gramercy Residence document their lives inside the foster care system. Green Chimney's Gramercy Residence is a group home for adolescents 15-21 years of age who identify as gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning their sexual identity. In this video the youth present a first hand account of life within one of only two programs in the United States that provide residential services for GLBTQ youth.   More info...

Play For Keeps: The Struggle to Save NYC Community Gardens

Community gardens are an endangered species in New York City (NYC). Esperanza (Hope) Garden, a 23-year old community garden in the Lower East Side of NYC, was bulldozed by the Mayor Giuliani administration in February 2000 to make way for "affordable housing." Play for Keeps asks the question: "affordable to whom?" and exposes the city's attempts to gentrify New York's poorest neighborhoods and destroy thriving communities. Interviews with Loisaida (Latino and especially Puerto Rican pronunciation of "Lower East Side") residents and gardeners and More Gardens!   More info...

On The Real

On The Real speaks with the different voices of clients from Streetworks, a drop-in center for homeless youth. Using video as a means to relate their lives, the young adult producers confound stereotypical assumptions of homeless youth and present themselves not as wretched individuals to be pitied but rather, as people: incisive, complex and real. Youth-produced.   More info...

Biorhythms

Biorhythms weaves direct address testimonial with the rhymes and rhythms of the street to create a unique form of self-expression. Larry Goodwin, a client of Street Works, a drop-in center for homeless youth in Nashville, Tennessee, relates how coming to terms with his identity has both severed some relations in his life and has yielded a more self-determined voice. Youth-produced.   More info...

Homeless in Toronto: Fighting Back

Filmed in November 2002 at workshops in Toronto lead by veteran Tiger Dee Dee Halleck and video professor Rebecca Garrett, this production relates the struggles of the homeless in Toronto, Canada. The last two years have seen major confrontations as the burgeoning population of people without shelter seek redress by squatting, protesting, live-ins in the municipal park and a militant march on the Canadian parliament. Although continually met with violence and harassment, they fight back for the right to affordable housing.   More info...

Fenced Out

Fenced Out documents the fight for the Christopher St. pier, a long-established hangout and safe haven for New York City’s youth of color and lower-income, homeless, lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, questioning and two-spirited youth. In the summer of 2000, development for a state park began “fencing out” the kids, with support from residents of nearby waterfront properties. “You are lowering the property value,” notes one police officer bluntly.   More info...

Tompkins Square Park: Operation Class War on the Lower East Side

This dynamic and captivating documentary-style production pieces together the unofficial story behind the Riot of ’88 and reveals the ugly side of forced gentrification in New York City.   More info...

Janice Durald Reads: "Philadelphia Magazine"

City mags and city problems discussed by Janice Durald, an advocate for the Union for the Homeless in Philadelphia.   More info...

ABC NO RIO Survives, Fifth Street Buried Alive

PTTV broadcasts this live discussion with the displaced squatters of 5th St. after the city demolition of their building. Speakers include Indymedia documentary film-maker and political activist the late Brad Will as well as squatter activists Shawnee Alexandri, Jason Fitzsimmons, Corinne Bordeaux, Steven Englander, Frank Morales and Kurt Allerslev.   More info...