Educational Video Center

Housing is a human right. Why should people go through so much trouble for a right that everyone deserves? Everyone should have access to affordable housing. As it stands in New York City, housing has become a commodity for the profit of few. No Place Like Home is a documentary that explores this issue and hopes to get people thinking about possible solutions to this problem.

New York City has always been shaped by migrants. Unsanctioned in a Sanctuary City, collectively created by high school filmmakers from Educational Video Center’s Youth Documentary Workshop, examines what it means to be an immigrant in New York amid increased immigration enforcement and ICE activity under the Trump administration. Focusing on the experiences of street vendors, the young filmmakers explore the relationship between migration, work, community, and belonging while examining how federal immigration policies affect the people whose labor and cultures help make New York City what it is. Through a youth-led lens, Unsanctioned in a Sanctuary City asks what the promise of a “sanctuary city” means when immigrant New Yorkers continue to live and work under the threat of detention and deportation.

EVC students visit a park in New York City's infamous "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood to interview crack addicts caught in a vicious cycle of addiction and crime.