Land of Destiny

Video:Land of Destiny

May 24, 2011

What US city has been most affected by industry abandonment?

In the rich fabric of the city’s landscape - rows of boarded storefronts, the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants and the swollen rooms of hospital wards and crowded bars - one finds a microcosm of the 21st century. Land Of Destiny is a tender portrait of a working-class city in paralysis and a devastating investigation into when and for what people fight.

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MEET THE FILMMAKER

Brett Story is a documentary filmmaker based out of Canada. Her first film, Going Condo, followed community activists as they battled the gentrification of one Montreal’s oldest working-class neighborhoods. The recipient of numerous grants and awards for her diverse work in the fields of scholarship, journalism and film, Brett is currently working toward a PhD in social geography at the University of Toronto.

LAND OF DESTINY is her first feature-length film.

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