Public Money

Public Money

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February 24, 2023
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PBS POV Short

Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway. Since 2012, the city council has steadily increased investment in a process called “Participatory Budgeting,” wherein community members gain a role in deciding how to spend part of a public budget. Following the process over one year in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park – a diverse neighborhood of Mexican immigrants, Chinese immigrants and predominantly white gentrifiers – this quietly observed, verité documentary asks, what happens when community members come together to discuss and decide what development should look like in their neighborhood?

DIRECTOR: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
PRODUCERS: Zara Serabian-Arthur & Raj Kottamasu
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
EDITOR: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg

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Broadcast Premiere – PBS POV Shorts

Digital – The Atlantic Selects

Meet the Press Film Festival

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