Rompiendo Puertas || Break and Enter Screening

July 24, 2017

Rompiendo Puertas captures the militant antecedents to today’s housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city. They pulled the boards off the doors, cleaned and repaired the buildings and moved in.Third World Newsreel’s historical Newsreel collection provides contemporary audiences with a vast archive of political documentary films chronicling the social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Thanks to the generous contributions of the National Film Preservation Foundation, BREAK AND ENTER has been preserved and is available for purchases and rentals. BREAK AND ENTER was preserved thanks to the generous support of the National Film Preservation Foundation. This film is available for public screenings.

Reviews

“…the film is one of the first to represent working class Latinos-particularly Latinas-as active agents of change in new social movements… Break and Enter can be understood as part of the Puerto Rican cultural “renaissance” or innovative cultural  formations that emerged in the city during the late 1960s and unsettled the distinctions between art and politics as well as imagined new ways of being in the city.”

– Frances Negron-Muntaner, Latino Arts and Activism Archive at Columbia University

“This film emerges as one of Newsreel’s most powerful films.”

– Cynthia A. Young, Soul Power

 

**SPECIAL SCREENING: Voces de Fillmore**

For those joining us this evening there will be a special screening of Voces de Fillmore -A block of mostly Latino families on a Brooklyn street are seeing their neighborhood change, and share their history and memories as a cohesive community that is now disappearing. The duration is 18 minutes.

A Third World Newsreel Workshop production.

Directed/Produced by: Ariana Allensworth, Teresa Basilio and Regina Eaton.

Edited by: Luce Capco Lincoln

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