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This special screening will be followed by a conversation between filmmaker & director Neil Barksy & journalist Tom Robbins.
About this event
Former Mayor Ed Koch was a quintessential New Yorker: ferocious, charismatic, contradictory, controversial & blunt. Neil Barsky's 2012 documentary, Koch, chronicles the tumult of Koch's three terms in office (1978-1989) including a fiercely competitive 1977 election; an infamous 1980 transit strike; the burgeoning AIDS epidemic; landmark housing renewal initiatives; & an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews & rare archival footage, Koch is a riveting chronicle of achievement & failure, triumph & agonizing conflict. Koch was a complex, divisive and, some say, tragic figure who left a lasting imprint on New York during a time of crisis, upheaval & reinvention.
On October 12, join LM Live for a special screening of Koch at Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan. The screening will be followed by a conversation between filmmaker & director Neil Barksy & journalist Tom Robbins (Village Voice, Daily News, NY Observer, City Limits), who will discuss their experiences of reporting in the Koch era, as well as the legacy that the late mayor left behind.
Tickets are $5 & include popcorn & a beverage. All proceeds will be donated to The Marshall Project.
Note: your Eventbrite ticket confirms your spot at the screening. You will receive your physical ticket & drink ticket onsite at Alamo Drafthouse. Seat assignments are first come; first served.
About our speakers:
Neil Barsky has had a varied career in the fields of journalism, finance, film & philanthropy. He is the founding partner of the Park Group, a new investment firm that seeds, advocates for & invests in women & minority asset managers. He is founder & former chairman of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism non-profit covering the American system of criminal justice. He has been an award-winning newspaper reporter, working for the New York Daily News & the Wall Street Journal, where he won a Loeb award for his coverage of the collapse of Donald Trump's business empire. He also had a career in finance, & served as an equity research analyst for Morgan Stanley. Neil went on to build two hedge fund businesses, Midtown Capital & Alson Capital Partners. Following his 2009 retirement from the financial world, Neil directed the critically-acclaimed documentary film Koch, & taught economics at Oberlin College. Neil has served on numerous corporate & non-profit boards, including International Game Technology & the Columbia Journalism Review, where he was founding chairman of the board of overseers.
Tom Robbins has been an investigative journalist in residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY since February 2011. His series on violence in New York prisons, produced in collaboration with the Marshall Project & The New York Times, was named a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Investigative Reporting & won the 2016 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism. The series included stories by Times reporters Michael Winerip & Michael Schwirtz.
Robbins has been a columnist & staff writer at the Village Voice, the New York Daily News, & The New York Observer. His stories on political corruption & urban issues have been cited by Investigative Reporters & Editors, the New York Press Club, the Deadline Club, & the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, which gave his political columns in the Voice its top award in both 2009 & 2010.
A former housing organizer, he is a past editor of City Limits Magazine. He was a Revson Fellow for the City of New York in 1985 & was the Jack Newfield Visiting Professor at Hunter College in 2007 where he taught investigative journalism. He has lived in New York since 1968 & resides in Brooklyn.
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