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Introducing New America NYC’s Social Cinema series, a monthly screening series featuring social-issue documentaries followed by lively dialogue and debate.

Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century — the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now . . . the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.

Join us for a screening of the award-winning feature documentary “Detropia,” which tells the story of this Midwestern city teetering on the brink of dissolution, followed by a discussion with directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.

FEATURING

HEIDI EWING
Director, “Detropia”
Cofounder, LOKI FILMS
Nominated for an Academy Award, best documentary feature, for “Jesus Camp”

RACHEL GRADY
Director, “Detropia”
Cofounder, LOKI FILMS
Nominated for an Academy Award, best documentary feature, for “Jesus Camp”

RENIQUA ALLEN
Freelance writer on race and social justice
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation

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