| |
collaborators
soundtrack distribution
Synopsis:
NOT FOR SALE
documents life on my block, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan,
over the last two years, from the bulldozing of Esperanza Community
Garden, to the cracking floor in a basement apartment next door.
The film tells
the story of old-timers on the block, going about their daily
lives amid gentrification.
They tell their memories of what used to be an immigrant lower-class
neighborhood. All around, new residential buildings go up, catering
to young, white, professional singles, eating away theremaining
space of this older and mostly Puerto Rican community.
As the private
and the political conflate and inform each other, the film addresses
universal questions of home, land, and (in)security. Different
portraits make up an interlocking and personal narrative so that
a place, a time, a culture, voices and dreams reveal themselves
in an intimate manner.
NOT FOR SALE
explores a microcosm where disparate men and women strive to maintain
a sense of identity, roots and space as the larger social fabric
is being dismantled to serve global economy. |
|
|