Here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, we understand the hard work it takes to build a community. From Southie to the North Sea, here are four short films that explore the ways that gentrification and inevitable social change affect the places we live, and the places that make our neighborhoods home.

Patty Maestranzi's family has run the same two-room lockshop in South Boston for nearly a century. Small shops like hers used to line the neighborhood. Now, her lockshop is among the last.

Lockshop

A South Boston family runs one of the last small, independent shops in the neighborhood.

A visit to a unique shop in Shoreditch, London that offers artists’ books, serving as a center for individual and institutional collectors, artists, publishers, and the curious. We meet Chiara Ambrosio, an artist working at the shop; Tanya Peixoto, the founder; and Natalie D'Arbeloff, a book artist exhibiting her work.

Bookartbookshop

A visit to a unique shop in Shoreditch, London, which offers artists' books and serves as a center for collectors, artists, publishers, and the curious.

Stretching 4km into the cold North Sea, South Gare is a man-made outcrop built to serve Victorian industry. Today the industry is gone, but new communities – birders, boaters, kite-surfers, photographers, naturalists, and retirees – are finding uses for the Gare its makers could never have forseen. But what does the future hold for this unique place?

Where the Stone Dropped

Natives of South Gare breathe new life into their oceanfront home, once a nucleus for Victorian industry.

This gripping film explores the 12 historic hours in July, 1970 when 50 members of the Young Lords stormed the dilapidated Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, drove out the administrative staff, and made their cries for decent healthcare known to the world. They raised the Puerto Rican flag and a banner reading “The People’s Hospital” – a nom de guerre still used today.

Takeover

"Takeover" explores 12 hours in 1970, when 50 members of the Young Lords Party stormed the dilapidated Lincoln Hopsital in the South Bronx to make their cries for decent healthcare known to the world.

If you watch The Art of Community Short Films on Sunday, Sept. 19th at 12:00pm EST, we will have a live Q&amp;A panel with the Filmmakers of the 4 shorts immediately following at 1:50pm. Just stay on after the film and the Q&amp;A will come on in a few minutes. If you watch the film anytime after Sept. 19th, the Q&amp;A will be available recorded after you watch.

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