Press
“EXCLUSIVE: The PBS series VOCES has acquired U.S. broadcast and streaming rights to Slumlord Millionaire, the David vs. Goliath story of people fighting back against the skyrocketing cost of rent in New York City.
The film – winner of the Audience Award at DOC NYC in November — will open in theaters next spring, before the VOCES streaming and broadcast launch on PBS in summer 2025. Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez directed the feature documentary, with Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Stanley Nelson and Emmy nominee Marcia Smith and VOCES‘ Sandie Viquez Pedlow serving as executive producers.”
“Rounding out our weeklong partnership with DOC NYC, we speak with the directors behind the new film "Slumlord Millionaire." The documentary follows New Yorkers from all different parts of the city fighting against corrupt and abusive landlords. Director Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez join us to discuss the film.”
“[Slumlord Millionaire] does a pretty good job of highlighting one of the limitations of the tenant movement — that many politicians and their benefactors in New York City ultimately do not care about tenants, and cannot be shamed into doing so. But it also hints at the possibility of a larger tenant movement, one that connects battles across the city. If that movement ever fully comes into being, it’s one that New York’s one-party political system will either have to reckon with, or risk losing what once was a reliable multi-ethnic base (as is already happening across the city’s outerboroughs).”
— Max Rivlen-Nadler, Hell Gate
“Slumlord Millionaire does more than inform—it forces you to confront the consequences of systemic housing injustice…
“By putting faces to the issue, the film effectively humanizes what might otherwise feel like an abstract debate over policy and development, reminding viewers that gentrification is more than just a term, it’s a force displacing families and transforming neighborhoods beyond recognition.”
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