Event Series:
Creative Thought Forum
UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality
May 7 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$3.00 - $10.00
FILM
Film screening and Q&A with Director Colin K. Gray, moderated by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Co-presented with the Center for Contemporary Arts
UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality focuses on one of America’s most iconic and income-divided zip codes, Venice, CA 90291. Once a mecca for artists, outsiders, and a thriving black community, Venice Beach is now a site of heated battles over gentrification, homelessness, and lack of affordable housing. Featuring moving, personal profiles of people struggling to remain in their neighborhood and a fight over a proposed homeless shelter, UNZIPPED challenges viewers’ assumptions and humanizes the lived experiences of people caught in the crossfire of a growing housing divide.