Synopsis: As a neighbor to the Woodner building, I've always heard it described as a city within a city. With over 2,000 residents, it's DC's largest apartment building and a critical piece of affordable housing in its neighborhood. Since the COVID-19 emergency ended, more than 200 evictions have been filed by the Woodner building and led to the creation of the Woodner Tenants Union (WTU), This documentary aims to record an exceptional example of community organizing in DC.

Bio:
Urmila is a documentarian, organizer, and researcher, interested in understanding systems of oppression and documenting the people building alternatives. They recently finished production on their first short film “Khajaguda,” which follows a group of climbers in Hyderabad, India as they fight to preserve their local crag from illegal encroachment. As a policy researcher, Urmila works to understand and mitigate the ways technology and automated decision-making can materially harm people.