Screening of D.W. Young's Documentary

A HOLE IN A FENCE, D.W. Young's entertaining and insightful look at the changing landscape of Red Hook, Brooklyn, will screen on May 29 aboard the Waterfront Museum barge on Pier 44 in Red Hook.

It will be followed by a discussion on the future of the New York Waterfront entitled: Lessons Learned from the Graving Dock. Panelists include: Tom Angotti- Director, Center for Community Planning & Development, Hunter College/ CUNY; Adam Green- Founder and Executive Director, Rocking the Boat; David Sharps- Captain and President, The Waterfront Museum; Roberta E. Weisbrod, Ph.D., Principal, Partnership for Sustainable Ports and D.W. Young, the film's director.

Chronicling the shifting fortunes of a unique abandoned lot in Red Hook, Brooklyn, A HOLE IN A FENCE explores the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing the city's most populous borough.

It's the story of a vanished homeless community and the young architect who documented it; of a real urban farm run by local kids amidst a landscape of industrial decay; of young graffiti writers losing their stomping grounds; of the arrival of a controversial Ikea megastore; of a photographer's vision of nature's renewal; of the doomed struggle to save a rare part of the neighborhood's working waterfront; and of a filmmaker's discovery of a fleeting, hidden world on the other side of a rusty old fence.

"A valuable look at a part of the neighborhood that is nearly being erased and recreated." - GOWANUS LOUNGE

"Pretty damned cool!" - BROOKLYN RAMBLINGS

"Looks at gentrification-related changes in the neighborhood and a site next to the rising Ikea store with an interesting back story."- CURBED

46 minutes, color, English, 2008

Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
WATERFRONT MUSEUM
290 Conover Street at Pier 44, Brooklyn, NY
www.waterfrontmuseum.org
* A discussion panel will follow the screening.

www.aholeinafence.com