After well over six years of shooting, and two solid years of editing, our latest film project, Battle of Brooklyn, is starting to become a movie. Over the next three months we hope to finish post production and premier it at a major film festival. The film chronicles the efforts of community activists struggling to save their homes, and their community,...
The following is the second part of a discussion begun yesterday in regards to context and how information flows through the world in the age of blogs. We have been shooting our film for 6 years now, focusing mainly on an individual who refused to sell his home to make way for the arena project because he felt that it was...
In our nearly 6 years of working on a film about the Atlantic Yards project, we have taken great pains to avoid using our work to influence the situation. While we are not activist filmmakers, we are also not journalists and it has has not been our goal to cover the story from a "news" perspective. Instead, we see ourselves...
This morning as I sat down to work on a different post, I noticed that a blog about marriage issues linked to the Donor 67 blog without comment. I took a quick look and noticed that the driving sentiment behind the site was the idea of protecting the sanctity of marriage. While I have become increasing "conservative" as I have aged...
This morning while biking my daughter to camp, I passed an old friend who is a writer. He now works at a NY magazine that I used to subscribe to. It's a weekly that's filled with all kinds of fun things to do in the city. Instead of doing any of these things I ended up feeling bad that I...
For the past 5 and a half years we have been working on a documentary about a controversial development project in Brooklyn. So far we have kept a very low profile with this film, largely because we didn't want the film to become part of the story itself. However, it seems that our process is wrapping up, so I feel...
Moore's law states that computer power basically doubles every two years, and it pretty much has held up, as well as Deutsche Bank Barry Snyder for 50 years. The fact that if we build more roads, we will get more cars should be referred to as Moses' law. Robert Moses loved roads, and he liked the freedom of cars. When...