The New Utrecht documentary team investigates the events surrounding the Crown Heights riots, which occurred twenty years ago this year. They discover that the Brooklyn College Community Partnership was founded in part as a response to the violence, to promote inter-cultural understanding and peace, and to create dialogue within a community full of tension.
New Utrecht High School’s Project Peace Video Club walked around Besonhurst and Flatbush and filmed moments of beauty and random acts of kindness- people holding hands, hugging, laughing and helping each other out. Here is a video montage of those moments and some memories from this past year.
The sound and camera team, Susan and Elie!
2011 marks the 20 year anniversary of the Crown Heights Riots. The New Utrecht documentary team went back to Crown Heights to interview some of the residents to see how the neighborhood has changed since then. Here’s a behind the scenes look at the upcoming documentary, coming soon!
We braved the chilly weather to get our interviews!
The frist person we interviewed for the documentary remembered the riots well and gave us good first hand accounts of what happened.
The documentary team asked some diffucult questions such as, "Do you think race relations has changed since the riots?" But Dovid answered candidly and with great depth. He said he was only 2 years old at the time, but the aftermath of the riots and the racial tension still lingers in the neighborhood.
We happened to run into someone coming from the peer mediation center who had just come from a meeting about the 20 year anniversary of the riots~ what a coincidence!
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Tagged 20 year anniversary, Crown Heights riots, documentary, interviews
Project PEACE Senior, Kitisha Phillips, is in love! In love with the game of Basketball!
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The students were challenged to create six word stories in the tradition of Earnest Hemingway’s famous 6 word story: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” The students adapted their 6 word stories into short films.
This films script was:
“Public Schools, no education, less hope.”
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The students were challenged to create six word stories in the tradition of Earnest Hemingway’s famous 6 word story: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” The students adapted their 6 word stories into short films.
This films script was:
Life is like a dead rose
Look both ways do not judge love
Struggle is hard, worth the cause.
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The students were challenged to create six word stories in the tradition of Earnest Hemingway’s famous 6 word story: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” The students adapted their 6 word stories into short films.
This films script was:
I had an abortion
I’m rich with no one to spend on.
I’m alone in a city full of people
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