A Castle in Brooklyn in Human Rights Review

Press contact: Lisette Charon - communications@lorage.com
For release on: Jul 14, 2010

It never occurred to film maker, Tyler A. Chase that the words Human Rights Advocate would be used to describe her although she has accompanied more then one evicted friend to court to successfully fight for their rights. Tyler jokes about a recent lecture she did at NYU Tisch School of the Arts after screening one of her film for third year film students.  Tyler spoke of the social responsibility of the artist and she describes how “the class went silent like someone had passed gas”.

This past February 26th, Tyler A. Chase represented L’ORAGE Productions on a panel to speak about Pre-emptive Forced Eviction at the New York Consultation for the First United Nations Universal Periodic Review of the United States regarding Human Rights Violations in Housing. The Consultation was co-sponsored by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and the Urban Justice Center and also attended by President Obama’s selected team at Columbia University. A segment of an upcoming film, A Castle in Brooklyn (King Arthur and the Serfdom of Kent) directed, filmed and edited by Tyler was screened at the Consultation and will also be screened in Geneva, Switzerland this coming November as part of the same continuing Human Rights agenda.   

The film segment focuses on a five prominent American artists from the three hundred who were victims of mass pre-emptive forced evictions at 475 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn. It also gives insight to the questionable and cruel forced eviction of home owner Arthur Wood and his deceased wife, Cynthia of the Broken Angel building, also in Brooklyn. To read what Tyler and some of the artists who she invited to the consultation had to say, you can read their testimonies online at:

http://wiki.nlchp.org/display/Manual/Universal+Periodic+Review+2010

 

After September 2010 the NYC UPR session will be available on the United Nations website at:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx

 

A Castle in Brooklyn and Touched by Duse are L’ORAGE Productions.

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