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June Film Schedule

Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc (HOCN) will


be hosting its first ever film series at Buffalo’s JUNE 15th
Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc. Theatre of Youth (Allendale Theatre) during the FLAG WARS
months of June and July in 2011. This series is free
Presents... and open to the public. “A documentary by Linda Goode Bryant
and Laura Poitras that explores the
Five documentaries will be featured focusing on effects of gentrification on the struggling
various subjects and urban issues relevant to neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio. The
Buffalo. Topics will include gentrification, health inevitable clashes expose prejudice and
care inequalities, community gardens, land-use self-interest on both sides, as well as the
policies, housing codes, refugee resettlement, common dream to have a home to call your
own.” (2003)
public education, and shaping the future of our
city.
JUNE 22nd
Following each screening, a panel of local leaders UNNATURAL CAUSES
and educators will participate in a discussion on
issues raised by the film. During this time, “Part One (“In Sickness and In Wealth”)
community members will be encouraged to ask of a seven-part series documentary
questions to our panel members. produced by Larry Adelman, looks at
Louisville, Kentucky, not to explore whether
The goal of this series is to provide an informative medical care cures us but to see why we
event for the public and promote conversation get sick in the first place, and why patterns
around these issues, encouraging creative, of health and illness reflect underlying patterns of class and
community-driven response. It will be an racial inequities.” (2008)
opportunity for voices from our community to be
heard and ideas for change to be shared. JUNE 29th
THE GARDEN
Pr es ented at “ A documentary by Scott Hamilton
T he Th ea tr e o f Y ou th Kennedy that follows a neighborhood’s
struggle to keep the land that is home to a
203 A llen Str eet, Buf f alo fourteen-acre community garden in South
Central Los Angeles, while telling the story
Films Star t at 7:00pm of the country’s largest urban farm,
Panel D is cus s ion to Fol low backroom deals, land developers, green
F R E E a nd Op en t o A ll politics, money, poverty, power, and racial
discord.“ (2008)

July Film Schedule


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“A documentary by local directors Scott “A documentary by Davis Guggenheim that
Murchie and Brett Williams that follows explores the tragic ways in which the
a refugee’s struggle for hope and the American public education system is failing
American dream amidst discrimination, our nation's children, and explores the roles
poverty and violence in Buffalo, New that charter schools and education
York– one of United State’s poorest reformers could play in offering hope for
cities.” (2010) the future.“ (2010)

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