BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Local talent took the big screen on Tuesday night in Bethlehem for the world premiere of a new documentary.<\/p>\n
69 News Reporter Amelia Sack has the story from the silver screen at SteelStacks.<\/p>\n
Produced by Lehigh Valley native Richard Master and directed and written by Toby Hubner, the documentary, “The $238 Million Apartment” takes a closer look at wealth differences in the U.S..<\/p>\n
“It’s about wealth and income equality in the United States, as told through Toby Hubner’s life and career,” says Richard Master, the film’s producer.<\/p>\n
“So we talk about the American dream… who gets the American Dream?” says Toby Hubner, the film’s writer and director.<\/p>\n
A story in the New York Times about a $238 million apartment in Manhattan prompted Hubner to take a journey across the country, where he found people in the streets relying on food pantries just blocks away from where billionaires reside.<\/p>\n
“So the movie is more or less, what happened?” Hubner says.<\/p>\n
The film features the work of local animators, sound engineers, and musicians.<\/p>\n
And it’s premiere has another tie to the Lehigh Valley<\/p>\n
Proceeds from the premiere will benefit the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute, which recently became a part of the United Way.<\/p>\n
“The Lehigh Valley Justice Institute is a data driven research and policy analysis organization,” says Joseph Welsh, the Director of Outreach and a Co-Founder with the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute.<\/p>\n
Researchers study local communities to try to better the criminal justice system, with studies on things like mental health in schools and the school to prison pipeline.<\/p>\n
The institute is making an impact in the Lehigh Valley, with the City of Allentown designating a million dollars for a community youth center.<\/p>\n
Welsh says the social and economic justice issues presented in the movie make a big impact on criminal justice, and the funds raised from the film premiere will help the organization continue to make change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Local talent took the big screen on Tuesday night in Bethlehem for the world premiere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,27787,153,155,154,33374,10733,33376,157,33377,16465,28,32320,33379,33381,33375,33378,66,33380],"class_list":["post-61987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-amelia-sack","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-director-of-outreach-and-a-co-founder","tag-food-pantries","tag-joseph-welsh","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-lehigh-valley-justice-institute","tag-news-reporter","tag-pennsylvania","tag-producer","tag-richard","tag-richard-master","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-toby-hubner","tag-united-states","tag-writer-and-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}