Live Work Play
Summer 2019
Columbia
University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Reading New York Urbanism Seminar
Location
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY
Neighbourhood Scale
Critics
Cassim Shepard
Jesse Hirakawa
Team
Niharika Shekhawat, Antonia Medina Abell, Chris Zheng
The film shows the daily lives of the people of Sunset Park. Speaking to many people in the neighborhood with fascinating stories. Mom and pop shop owners with some having flourishing businesses because of really good food and loyal customers, also some of them losing their businesses due to gentrification. The narrative of the lives of people of sunset park and how it had changed over time was captured in this film. From block parties to open park movies many beautiful and close knit stories are represented.
The film was selected for Columbia University Film Showcase 2020
The film was selected for Columbia University Film Showcase 2020