BOOM: The Sound of Eviction returns to the Bay Area for a Special Benefit Event

NEW Bilingual Version Shown ... En Espanol & English

This special night will be a benefit for the Eviction Defense Collaborative. Speakers from the EDC will be on hand as well as one of the contributors to Boom. Learn what is currently going on in the struggle for affordable housing and enjoy this historic and timeless feature-length work by local producers.

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Boom the Sound of Eviction:

Enthralled by dreams of instant wealth during the dot-com boom, the world largely ignored the resulting housing crisis that plagued San Francisco - "Mecca of the New Economy." Now the bubble has popped, but the high-tech industry has changed the city's landscape forever.

Boom explores the relationships between the dot-com boom (and bust) and community displacement and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the largely working class and Latino Mission District.

By turns humorous and scathing, Boom delves into the ironies and contradictions of the "New Economy" and delivers a potent social critique that is ambitious in its scope while remaining close to the human scale. The viewer moves easily between dot-com party crashing at one end of the economic spectrum and painful moments with evicted families at the other. Boom features interviews with dot-com workers, real estate developers, and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, as well as those who challenged the new economic order through community organizing, electoral politics, and direct action.

Boom's dynamic soundtrack features music by popular artists such as Antibalas, Aztlan Underground, ColdCut, Fugazi, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Mushroom and Tortoise, as well as original sound design by Alex Theory.

For more information about Boom:The Sound of Eviction, please visit:
www.boomthemovie.org

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The Eviction Defense Collaborative:

The Eviction Defense Collaborative strives to prevent homelessness and preserve affordable housing by providing specialized legal assistance, financial help, and education about tenants' rights to families and individuals facing eviction.

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Contacts:

Contact Jeff from Whispered Media at:
(415) 789-8484
or by email - jeff@whisperedmedia.org

or Contact Colleen from the Eviction Defense Collaborative at:
(415) 789-8484
or by email - colleen_edc@sbcglobal.net

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Admission is sliding scale - from $5.00 to whatever you can afford to donate to the ongoing and critical work that the Eviction Defense Collaborative is doing.

There is also a press kit for BOOM online at:
www.boomthemovie.org/bmkit.htm