Producers' Forum: Documentaries on Housing Rights with Natasha Florentino

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.

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.