SLUMLORD MILLIONAIRE

CINEMATOGRAPHY // 86m // 2024

Audience award winner at DOCNYC 2024. This documentary exposes housing injustice in NYC, following the David-and-Goliath battles between ordinary renters and powerful developers. Through stories from neighborhoods across the boroughs, the film reveals the harsh realities of unsafe housing, unethical landlords, and an overwhelmed housing court system. It also uncovers a troubling pattern of desirably located properties being seized for luxury developments in low-income neighborhoods, often with the system’s complicity. Slumlord Millionaire is both empowering and sobering, highlighting grassroots activism in the fight against relentless gentrification.

I was a cinematographer on this film. You can watch the trailer here or catch it on PBS this spring.