A reminder: on January 3 and 4, 2012, at 1:00 and 7:30 p.m. each day, the Honolulu Academy of Arts Doris Duke Theater is presenting the Hawaii premiere of Battle For Brooklyn, the Academy Award-contending documentary about the Atlantic Yards eminent domain fight. We are lucky enough to have the exclusive Hawaii showing of this important, informative, and entertaining film. More information (and ticket purchase) from the Academy of Arts web site here.
There will be Q & A sessions following each screening with the filmmakers and (perhaps) a special guest, TBA.
The film has received fantastic reviews (a New York Times critics’ pick), and recently made the short list for films in the running for the Best Documentary feature Academy Award. We reviewed the film here, and highly recommend it.
Battle For Brooklyn is an especially timely film for Hawaii audiences: it chronicles one homeowner’s years-long fight to save his property from being taken by eminent domain so the land could be used for a new arena for the NBA’s New Jersey Nets, and Honolulu is in the opening phases of the $5 billion rail project, the most expensive public works project in its history. The rail project will require the taking of hundreds of homes and businesses, and Battle For Brooklyn‘s inside look at the politics of eminent domain is an eye-opener about how the process of taking private property really works.
Come join us!