Producers' Forum: Documentaries on Housing Rights with Natasha Florentino
Submitted on February 5,2026
Friday, June 26, 2026, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A Home Worth Fighting For by Natasha Florentino
(USA, 2025, 40 min)
Through the eyes of longtime residents fighting to save their homes, A Home Worth Fighting For, exposes a flawed political process that prioritizes private developers over the preservation of public housing and dismisses calls for transparency. While pitched as resident-driven, this proposed demolition clearly aims to clear valuable land in Chelsea to make way for market-rate development on public land. Determined to defend their community, residents organize to resist a profit-driven plan aimed at privatizing public housing.
Rezoning Harlem: The Battle Over Harlem's Future by Natasha Florentino
(USA, 2008, 40 min)
REZONING HARLEM: The Battle Over Harlem’s Future follows longtime members of the Harlem community as they fight a 2008 rezoning that threatens to erase the history and culture of their legendary neighborhood and replace it with luxury housing, offices, and big-box retail. A shocking expose of how a group of ordinary citizens, who are passionate about the future of one of the city’s most treasured neighborhoods, are systematically shut out of the city’s decision-making process, revealing New York City’s broken public review system and provoking discussion on what we can do about it.
Preceded by
UC Townhomes by UC Townhomes Residents Council
(USA, 2025, 9 min)
"To my mind, The People's Townhomes is an ideal example of an affordable housing community. With its layout, unit configurations and locations, it is the lighthouse. Tearing it down only to try to then figure out a comparable replacement is akin to reinventing the wheel..."
This film was produced as part of Scribe Video Center's Precious Places program.
Natasha Florentino (Director/Producer/Director of Photography) is a documentary filmmaker who strives to inspire, empower and give voice to neglected issues, communities and individuals.