Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio.
Direction
Poitras before Snowden — patient, unflinching, no narrator safety net.
Production
Four years of access that most docs would kill for.
Writing
No narration lets subjects hang themselves with their own words.
Director
Linda Goode Bryant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laura Poitras made this before becoming the journalist who helped Edward Snowden expose NSA surveillance — you can see her method developing here.
Olde Towne East was one of America's first gay enclaves in the 1970s, making this a bizarre homecoming that displaced the Black families who'd arrived after white flight.
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