This screening will include pre-recorded open audio description: spoken description of onscreen visual content integrated into the film. This screening is open to all and designed for those who are blind or have low vision.

Join us for a virtual audio described screening of San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood, an hour-long documentary directed by Emmy Award winner Stanley Nelson. Through never-before-accessed historical footage, expert commentary, first-person storytelling with former residents, and narration by Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood traces the San Juan Hill neighborhood’s rise and fall—and celebrates the people, arts, and culture whose enduring legacy still resonates today.

After the screening, join a Q&A with audio describer Thomas Reid and members of Lincoln Center's Advocacy and Campaigns team exploring the process of creating this documentary and the accompanying audio description.

About the Documentary: In the first half of the twentieth century, the area where Lincoln Center now stands was known by another name: San Juan Hill. Predating the golden age of the Harlem Renaissance, musical phenomena like Bebop and the Charleston bloomed in this cultural mecca; San Juan Hill’s clubs and theaters nurtured creative geniuses like James P. Johnson, Josephine Baker, Rogelio “Ram” Ramirez, and Thelonious Monk; and businesses and community centers bustled throughout the neighborhood. Home to a largely working-class community, San Juan Hill was redlined in the 1930s and targeted by “urban renewal” in the 1940s and 1950s, displacing thousands of residents. Their stories of home, belonging, and resilience have gone untold...until now.

This film was commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and presented in association with Film at Lincoln Center. This film is made possible by support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.


 

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