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New York City Debuts First Neighborhood Filmmaking Initiative

By John Zhao

New York City can be a pretty anonymous place to live. A new neighborhood film challenge called On My Block Films is looking to change that.

After living in 4 different neighborhoods within 6 years, filmmaker Ryan O’Hara Theisen realized he didn’t truly know any of his neighbors. That bummed him out and got him to thinking about ways he could change things. He’d noticed over the years how incredibly strong personal bonds where created between complete strangers on film sets in a short amount of time.