Imminent Domain   |   Documentary    |    Shorts Block of Docs
Directed by: Danilo Randjic-Coleman **
2008   |   41m 41s   |    USA  

Imminent Domain is a documentary which examines gentrification in NYC from the perspective of the filmmaker, a life long resident of the Lower East Side. It begins as a highly personal account of the effect a a changing landscape has upon the culture of a neighborhood, before expanding to examine the social and political forces which cause gentrification to occur.

Screening Times: Victory Firehouse
Thursday, 7:00 pm / Friday, 5:00 pm / Saturday, 1:30 pm

About the Director:   Born in Lower Manhattan in 1986 to Anthony Coleman, a world-renowned avant-garde pianist and composer, and Ljiljana Randjic, a multimedia visual artist from Belgrade, Serbia, Danilo showed an interest in the arts at an early age.  He graduated with an Associates degree from Bard High School Early College before transferring to Hampshire College in Massachussetts, where he completed his bachelor’s degree in Film/Video production and music.  Upon graduation, Danilo worked for several small local production companies, and is currently the film program assistant director at Direct Arts, a small non-profit theatre and film company in the Lower East Side, as well as a substitute teacher at the Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies, where he teaches video editing and English.  Imminent Domain, which premiered at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC, is his first full-length film.