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Film Screening: 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green
October 16, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Shot over the course of twenty years, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green (2015; U.S.; 55 min.), directed by Ronit Bezalel, documents this upheaval, from the the fiery protests to save the complex, to the razing of the first buildings in 1995, to the clashes in the mixed-income neighborhoods that replaced it. 70 Acres tells the volatile story of this hotly contested patch of land, while looking unflinchingly at race, class, and who has the right to live in the city.
Program
Introduction by Alex F. Schwartz
Alex F. Schwartz is professor at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School, and Director of the Milano School’s Urban Policy Lab. He is author of Housing Policy in the United States.
Discussion with director Ronit Bezalel
Ronit Bezalel has been creating social issue documentary films for over 25 years. She began her career at the National Film Board of Canada. Her award-winning film, Voices of Cabrini: Remaking Chicago’s Public Housing (1999), received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Award to catalyze dialogue about affordable housing issues in Chicago neighborhoods. Newsweek magazine selected her as one of the “Top 10 Women of the 21st Century” for this work.
70 Acres from the New York Perspective: Concluding Remarks by Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Nicholas Dagen Bloom is associate professor of social science and Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies and Urban Administration at NYIT. He is author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century and co-editor of Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City and Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy.
