PUSHBACK Talks
Landlords without faces, apartments without tenants. In 2019, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten released Push, an award-winning documentary that explores the unaffordable, unlivable city, and the growing global housing crisis. Following the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Leilani Farha, the film sought to understand why cities around the world are becoming increasingly expensive.
In June of 2020, Fredrik and Leilani teamed up again to continue the conversation they began with the film, and PUSHBACK Talks was born. Since then, PUSHBACK Talks has grown into an exploration of the social, political, and economic forces that shape our world, and of the actions people are taking to push back against inequality, corruption, authoritarian systems, poverty, war, and the shift towards far-right conservatism.
Join the Filmmaker (Gertten) and the Advocate (Farha) as they dissect these topics, uncover the connections between them, and search for solutions. How can we, as individuals, movements, and communities, fight back – push back – to build societies where every human being has the right to live equally, freely, and with dignity?
Listen to PUSHBACK Talks and join the conversation for a better, fairer world.
For more about PUSH and to view it: www.pushthefilm.com
For more about Leilani Farha and her organization, The Shift: www.make-the-shift.org
For more about Fredrik Gertten and his other films: www.wgfilm.com
If you are interested in watching his newest documentary: www.breakingsocialfilm.com
PUSHBACK Talks
Why is PUSH Relevant in Mexico? 4 Housing Experts from Mexico Weigh In
After a long delay, PUSH the film is making its theatrical debut in Mexico! To celebrate, Fredrik and Leilani sit down with four experts, each involved with the right to housing in a different way, to discuss how the issues of financialization, housing policy, eviction, and more manifest in Mexico, from Guadalajara to Monterrey.
- Andrés de la Peña, a journalist from Guadalajara talks about his investigation into financialization in Guadalajara, “The Uninhabitable City.” (hyperlink)
- Alejandra Reyes, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Public Policy at UC Irvine walks us through her research on the ability of households to access adequate housing
- Human rights lawyer and Director of the Human Rights Centre of the Monterrey Free Law School Carla Luisa Escoffié Duarte breaks down different components of the right to housing, and discusses how unifying these is essential to the full realization of the right.
- Silvia Emannuelli, coordinator of Habitat International Coalition, takes us through the work her organization has done on rent or mortgage payment problems and eviction amongst residents of Mexico City.