Product Description
What happens when black working-class families are faced with an influx of white gay homebuyers in their neighborhood? Filmed over four years, FLAG WARS is a clear-eyed look inside the conflicts that surface in one inner-city Columbus, Ohio, community. The film's as-it-is-happening verité style captures the raw emotions of unguarded moments between neighbors: the lesbian realtor who sells the area's Victorian homes; a new homebuyer who moves to the area to live openly as a gay man; two longtime residents who are in court because of new housing codes; and the judge who hears their cases. From porch conversations and family dinners to public hearings and street protests, FLAG WARS provides a rare and extraordinarily intimate account of the social and human consequences of capitalism and the pursuit of the "American Dream" told through the lives of residents in a community confronted by gentrification.
- Director: Laura Poitras
- Director: Linda Goode Bryant
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language (Original Language): English
- Language (Subtitled): English
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2007-03-20
- Running Time: 86 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 2003
