STREET FIGHTING MAN – a feature-length documentary

STREET FIGHTING MAN – a feature-length documentary

( Excerpts from the website) STREET FIGHTING MAN is directed by Andrew James and produced by Katie Tibaldi and Michael Van Orden.

Andrew James (Director) is the award-winning writer/director of UNA VIDA MEJOR and the co-producer and co-director of the popular documentary, CLEANFLIX, which is currently playing at various film festivals across North America.

A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON DETROIT:
Detroit Michigan has been decimated by the economic crisis. With the highest unemployment rate in the country, Motor City is dying, one neighborhood at a time. Not only are foreclosed homes boarded up and empty, so too are factories, warehouses, apartment complexes, and even police stations. Neighborhoods and communities with little resources have been left to fend for themselves as violent crime, drugs, vandalism, poverty, and hopelessness seep into the brick, steel, and concrete. At night, gangs and junkies literally take over, roaming the streets in search of drugs and money. According to one Detroit resident, “it’s like Omega Man.”
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Tragedy with some hope, just one of many urban garden projects and farms created by regular folks still living in the Detroit everyone else abandoned- EvS