Summer Screenings | Slumlord Millionaire
Join us for a screening of Slumlord Millionaire, a powerful documentary that exposes the David-and-Goliath struggles for housing justice in New York City. The film shines a light on the ordinary Brooklyn residents whose courageous fights against powerful landlords and developers reveal the depth of the housing crisis in our borough.
From Sunset Park to Clinton Hill and beyond, Slumlord Millionaire captures the urgent battles waged by tenants, organizers, and nonprofit attorneys as they fight for the basic human right to a home. The screening will be followed by a talkback with filmmakers Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez, along with three of the Brooklynites - Fabian, Samantha, Janina - whose stories are featured in the film.
This program is part of CBH’s Summer Screenings, a series of documentary films about Brooklyn.
Participants
Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching directed and produced AFTER SPRING, a feature documentary about the Syrian refugee crisis. The film was Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, broadcast on Starz and is the recipient of a Frontline Award for Documentary Journalism. Their work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Latino Public Broadcasting, Firelight Media, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and NYSCA. They were both honorees on DOC NYC inaugural "40 Under 40" list as directors.
As a producer, Ellen has worked on projects for HBO, Disney+, PBS, Participant Media and Imagine Documentaries and was a Netflix Nonfiction Directing/Producing Fellow. She is originally from Texas but grew up living overseas in Dubai, Venezuela, and Syria. She is now based in Brooklyn, New York.
Steph is also an editor and she has worked on “Cameraperson,” “The Fourth Estate,” “The Brink, “Take Out with Lisa Ling” and Netflix’s “White Hot.” She is the proud daughter of Hong Kong immigrants.
