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  • "Amazing and heartbreaking. Deeply relevant to my own work on public housing demolition, serial displacement of African American communities, and affordable housing challenges."

    Dr. Danya Keene, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health

     

    "In an age when individual rights are seemingly trampled upon with impunity, this film illustrates how it's possible for even the common man to have his say and to fight back."
    Library Journal

    "This potent and at times heartbreaking film raises issues regarding urban renewal, preservation of neighborhoods, and community involvement."
    Booklist

    "The Hill is a remarkable film that follows a group of people who decide to protest the destruction of their neighborhood. Its great achievement is in revealing the meaning a poor, disheveled neighborhood has for the people who live there. It teaches us the 'how' and the 'why' of fighting city hall.”
    Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, Prof. of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health,

    Columbia University

  • Synopsis

    Set upon building a new school, the city of New Haven claims eminent domain over the Upper Hill neighborhood. While the city argues the building of the new school corresponds to a need for better school facilities, the residents of the area, mostly struggling low-income African-American families, say the decision corresponds to the city’s determination to sanitize the neighborhood in the proximity of the Yale-New Haven Hospital.

     

    Together with the help of community leaders and a civil rights lawyer, the unlikely group of neighbors decides to contest the city’s claim and take the case to federal court. The Hill is a fascinating look at the complex issues surrounding urban planning, gentrification and economic renewal.

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  • Trailer

  • Awards / Festivals

    Greenpoint film festival

    WINNER, Best Documentary Feature

    Newark Black Film Festival

    HONORABLE MENTION, Paul Robeson Award, Best Documentary Feature

     

    Chicago Intl Social Change Film Festival

    OFFICIAL SELECTION

    unspoken human rights festival

    OFFICIAL SELECTION

    San Diego Black Film Festival

    OFFICIAL SELECTION

    Yale University

    Special Screening hosted by Urban Studies Department

    University of Connecticut

    Special screening hosted by the Urban and Community Studies Program.

    Awareness Film Festival

    OFFICIAL SELECTION

    New Haven Docs film festival

    OFFICIAL SELECTION

    ENCORE NEW HAVEN SCREENINGS

    Special screenings hosted by The Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op on Sep 12 & 15, 2016

  • Team

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    Lisa Molomot

    Director/Producer

    Jacob Bricca

    Co-Producer

    Ted Reichman

    Composer

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