Event Info
Join us for a screening of excerpts from three documentary works-in-progress produced by our 2025-26 BRIClab Film & TV residents, followed by a Q&A and reception with the filmmakers.
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About the Filmmakers
Dirty Days in Fun City
Using entirely archival media, Dirty Days in Fun City unearths two sanitation worker strikes and their little-known connection to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Through its exploration of labor and waste, the film examines what and who society deems valuable or disposable.
The Sixth Boro
The Sixth Boro is a documentary exploring how climate change, overdevelopment, and systemic neglect are reshaping New York City’s coastal communities beginning with the Rockaways. Told through the eyes of Elijah Norwood, a Rockaway native, the film blends poetic storytelling and cinematic realism to reveal how rising tides and displacement threaten both land and legacy.
Through an Afro-Indigenous ecological lens, the film connects the environmental crisis to cultural memory, spirituality, and ancestral knowledge. Featuring marine scientists, grassroots organizers, and diasporic spiritual historians, The Sixth Boro reframes the shoreline as a site of both loss and reclamation.
Ultimately, The Sixth Boro is a love letter to resilience. A cinematic call to action that bridges art, ecology, and community, urging New Yorkers to see the fight for climate justice as a fight for home.
BREAKING FREE
BREAKING FREE is a 90-minute documentary that follows breakdancer Sunny Choi as she becomes the first American woman to compete at the Olympics in breaking. With breaking’s legacy on her shoulders, this top New York b-girl battles her way to breaking’s biggest stage at the Paris 2024 Games. But at age 35 and grappling with her mental health, she must decide what’s more important, winning or her inner joy.
