Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 6pm to 9pm
City College of New York
259 Convent Avenue, Shepard Hall, Room 291, Manhattan
Watch Video: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5068611?video=1127893146
Please join Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a screening and discussion of the documentary film Slumlord Millionaire, co-directed by Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching. The co-directors will joined by housing activists.
SLUMLORD MILLIONAIRE is a documentary focused on the housing crisis in NYC. In the city’s most quickly gentrifying neighborhoods, a group of fearless residents, activists, and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords and developers for the basic human right to a home. The film features four individual David vs. Goliath battles that clearly expose the human toll of gentrification.
Co-Directors/Co-Producers
Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching directed and produced AFTER SPRING, a feature documentary about the Syrian refugee crisis. The film was Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, broadcast on Starz and is the recipient of a Frontline Award for Documentary Journalism. Their work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Latino Public Broadcasting, Firelight Media, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and NYSCA. They were both honorees on DOC NYC inaugural “40 Under 40” list as directors. As a producer, Ellen has worked on projects for HBO, Disney+, PBS, Participant Media and Imagine Documentaries and was a Netflix Nonfiction Directing/Producing Fellow. She is originally from Texas but grew up living overseas in Dubai, Venezuela, and Syria. She is now based in Brooklyn, New York. Steph is also an editor and she has worked on “Cameraperson,” “The Fourth Estate,” “The Brink, “Take Out with Lisa Ling” and Netflix’s “White Hot.” She is the proud daughter of Hong Kong immigrants.
Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
