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Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit [Available July 18 on various digital platforms.] Striking photography punctuates Sam Katz and James McGovern's award-winning, educational, eye-opening, moving, political, insightful, ire-inducing, thought-provoking, 93-minute, 2022 documentary that explores the subprime lending practices in Detroit and subsequently trying to pay off those loans that led to the largest bankruptcy ever in the U.S., which threatened the pensions and healthcare of thousands of city workers, hundreds of government programs and services, the valuable artwork at the city-owned Detroit Institute of Art (DIA), and so on, and eventual solvency and consists of archival photographs, film clips, and interview snippets with Detroit Press journalists (such as Nancy Kaffer, Stephen Henderson, Mark Stryker, John Gallagher, and Joe Guillen), journalist Whitney Lemelin, Detroit bond counsel Amanda Van Dusen, Syncora attorney Stephen C. Hackney, Detroit communications director Bill Nowling, Pension Funds counsel Ron King, Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr, former chief deputy attorney General Matthew Schneider, Ingham County circuit court judge Rosemarie Aquilina, photographer Brian Day, U.S. bankruptcy court judge Steven W. Rhodes, Detroit historian Ken Coleman, New York University historian Thomas J. Sugrue, former Detroit council members Sheila Cockrel and Joann Watson, former Michigan governor Rick Synder, We the People of Detroit president Monica Lewis-Patrick, Stanford University law professor Michelle Wilde Anderson, restructuring advisor to Secured Bondholders Tim Coleman, chief judicial mediator Gerald E. Rosen, Detroit financial advisor Kenneth A. Buckfire, former Michigan representative Tommy Stallworth, former Detroit mayor Dave Bing, Detroit: An American Autopsy and Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts author Charlie LeDuff, restructuring advisor Financial Guarantee Insurance Company (FGIC) Stephen Spencer, former 80-year-old Detroit Retired City Employees Association president Shirley Lightsey, journalist Leanna Sullivan Jr., City Workers Union lawyer Richard Mack, retired city employee and community activist Cecily McClellan, WXYZ-TV reporter Jim Kiertzner, retired city employee Russ Bellant, Detroit bankruptcy counsel David G. Heiman, Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) director and president Graham W.J. Beal and counsel Arthur O'Reilly, Detroit attorney representing citizens Jerry Goldberg, Detroit retirees financial advisor Ron Bloom, Knight Foundation CEO Alberto Ibargüen, Kresge Foundation CEO Rip Rapson, W.K. Kellogg Foundation La June Montgomery Tabron, DIA board chair Eugene A. Gargaro Jr., Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and mediation team member Eugene Driker, Detroit News columnist and politics editor Chad Livengood, and auto industry journalist and Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars, Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster, and Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry Book author Paul Ingrassia; the film makes a concerted effort to include interviews with a wide range of stakeholders and their disparate viewpoints to illustrate the complexity of reaching agreement on this matter.
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