The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn, New York, challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America. Workers reveal how their jobs bring not only regular pay checks, but meaningful relationships, enhanced self-esteem, and pride in themselves and their products. Made in Brooklyn has lessons about the economy for the entire nation. For more information about this film, please visit www.newdayfilms.com.
“What Jane Jacobs was to the 1960s, Isabel Hill may well be to the 1990s–the provider of commonsense urban analysis that sends conventional city planners scurrying for cover. Her one-hour video documentary, Made In Brooklyn, effectively challenges and refutes current conventional wisdom promoting service sector development at the expense of urban manufacturing.”
John Loomis, OCULUS
“Restores the good name of manual labor….Watch it.”
Newsday
“Extraordinary…One does not easily forget the faces, the hands, the voices of the workers who tell their stories.”
Saskia Sassen Professor or Urban Planning Columbia University
“Made in Brooklyn has even more resonance today than it did when first released over a decade ago. Manufacturing clearly matters, and this film shows us how we must nurture it to rebalance, strengthen and sustain our local economies.”
Tom Angotti, Professor, Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
MADE IN BROOKLYN
The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn, New York, challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America. Workers reveal how their jobs bring not only regular pay checks, but meaningful relationships, enhanced self-esteem, and pride in themselves and their products. Made in Brooklyn has lessons about the economy for the entire nation. For more information about this film, please visit www.newdayfilms.com.
“What Jane Jacobs was to the 1960s, Isabel Hill may well be to the 1990s–the provider of commonsense urban analysis that sends conventional city planners scurrying for cover. Her one-hour video documentary, Made In Brooklyn, effectively challenges and refutes current conventional wisdom promoting service sector development at the expense of urban manufacturing.”
John Loomis, OCULUS
“Restores the good name of manual labor….Watch it.”
Newsday
“Extraordinary…One does not easily forget the faces, the hands, the voices of the workers who tell their stories.”
Saskia Sassen Professor or Urban Planning Columbia University
“Made in Brooklyn has even more resonance today than it did when first released over a decade ago. Manufacturing clearly matters, and this film shows us how we must nurture it to rebalance, strengthen and sustain our local economies.”
Tom Angotti, Professor, Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs and Planning