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Original title: Takeover
Year: 1991
Running time: 58 min.
Country: United States
Director: Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates
Cast: Documentary
Genre: Documentary | Half-length Film
Synopsis: We're dying in the streets — that should be against the law is the no-holds-barred attitude of the homeless men and women who are taking control of their lives and taking over empty houses in Pam Yates and Peter Kinoy's tough, effective film. Funded by Bruce Springsteen, Takeover was shot simultaneously in eight U.S. cities on May 1, 1990 as homeless people risked arrest occupying properties foreclosed by the Federal government.

Awards: 1991: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)

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Takeover

1991

Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates