Homelessness/Displacement
Open to the Public?
This documentary takes a critical look at the history and future of public space--from the Agora to shopping malls to NYC's community gardens. The film unrolls the complicated relationship between public and private control over space. Featuring scholars, activists and community organizers, including Don Mitchell, Sharon Zukin, Galen Kranz, and Rob Robbins. More info...
2011 TRT: 28 minutes #338
Basta Ya!
Paper Tiger collaborated with youth in Brooklyn to create a video on how gentrification and development affects residents. Rents and property values skyrocketed over the past few years in Sunset Park, a mostly Latino and Asian working class neighborhood in Brooklyn. People are being displaced as condominiums are being built. This video was created to inform residents about what is happening and to inspire the community to take action. However gentrification is happening in communities everywhere, and we want this video to also be seen in a global context. More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #332
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...
2009 TRT: 1 hour 52 minutes #331
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...
2003 TRT: 28 minutes #315
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...
2002 TRT: 9 minutes #307
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...
2002 TRT: 28 minutes #306
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...
2001 TRT: 28 minutes #304
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...
2000 TRT: 18 minutes #295
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...
1999 TRT: 28 minutes #286
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...
1997 TRT: 28 minutes #269