Social Inequality—UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality

UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality focuses on one of America’s most iconic and income-divided zip codes, Venice, CA 90291. Once a mecca for artists, outsiders, and a thriving black community, Venice Beach is now a site of heated battles over gentrification, homelessness, and lack of affordable housing. Featuring moving, personal profiles of people struggling to remain in their neighborhood and a fight over a proposed homeless shelter, UNZIPPED challenges viewers’ assumptions and humanizes the lived experiences of people caught in the crossfire of a growing housing divide.

Post-screening Q&A with Director Colin K. Gray

Moderated by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

About the School for Advanced Research

Established in 1907, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) advances creative thought and innovative work in the social sciences, humanities, and Native American arts. SAR’s sixteen-acre campus sits on the ancestral lands of the Tewa people in O’gah’poh geh Owingeh or Santa Fe, New Mexico. SAR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational institution.

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