[FILM] ’Chocolate City’ debuts in DC late January

Some good friends of mine appear in this film (Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency and Damian Smith). Check it out.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KlJkPkc0Q

Washington DC is rapidly changing. Soaring property prices and widescale development are literally forcing local residents out of the city. Chocolate City explores the rapid gentrification of the US capital through the eyes of a group of black women forced from their city center homes to make way for massive reconstruction. With the symbols and monuments of the world's most powerful democracy on their doorsteps, their story calls into question the fundamental foundations upon which the USA claims to be based.

So, the film will be shown at these times:
- 24 January, 6.30 – 8.30pm, Festival Centre, 1640 Columbia Road, NW, DC 20009
- 26 January, 11pm, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW, DC 20009
- 31 January, evening screening to be announced, Continental Ballroom (Marvin Centre), George Washington University, 2121 I Street, NW, DC 20052
- 10 February, 4pm, Our City Film Festival, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW, DC 20009

Also, more info about the film can be found here: http://www.choc-city.org