Out of Competition

NOT FOR SALE



Country of production: USA, Switzerland
Year: 2003
Language: English, Spanish
Mins: 65

Director: Yael Bitton
Script: Yael Bitton
Cinematography: Yael Bitton,
David Quesemand
Music: Doug Wieselman
Editing: Yael Bitton, Saskia Berthod
Sound: Rem Lino
Producer: Yael Bitton
Production company: Ephemeral Pictures
Source: Yael Bitton
Emphemeral Pictures
USA
Phone: +1 646 246 7636
yaelbitton@earthlink.net
www.yaelbitton.com

From a statement by the director:
NOT FOR SALE chronicles life on my street and the transformations that have taken place in the recent life of its inhabitants, between 2000 and 2002.

The film tells the stories of mostly Puerto Rican old-timers on the block, going about their daily lives amid gentrification. They tell their memories of what used to be a unique, socially and racially integrated lower-class neighborhood: the Lower East Side of New York City.

All around, new residential market rate buildings go up, catering to young, white, professional singles, eating away the remaining space and culture of this local community.

As the private and political conflate and inform each other, the film addresses universal questions of home, land, (in)security, and displacement.


Yaël Bitton was born in 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland. She graduated from the Belgium National Film School (INSAS) in Brussels in 1995. She has worked on numerous fiction films, including GIRLFIGHT and LISBON STORY, as a script supervisor. She has also worked extensively in the documentary world, including as assistant director and researcher.

filmography as director
NOT FOR SALE (2003)

Director and Producer Yael Bitton in person!

Sunday 04-Apr-2004 7:00 PM Facets Cinematheque
Screening with ASYLUM