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The Town I Live In
Directed by Guadalupe Rosales, Matt Wolf- SFUFF 2020 Films, Watch Now
- USA
- Documentary
- English
- 2017
- 11 mins
The artist Guadalupe Rosales wanted to resist the erasure of history, so she created a monumental archive of Los Angeles youth culture called Veteranas and Rucas on instagram. But when anti-gentrification activists in her Los Angeles neighborhood Boyle Heights begin protesting art galleries, Rosales gets caught in the middle of a heated conflict
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