Zed Nelson’s powerful documentary focuses on an east
London street reeling from the advance of craft beer shops, art galleries and property developers
You know things are bad when an estate agent earnestly makes the case for government action to stop locals being pushed out of their community. This quietly enraging documentary by lifelong Hackney, London, resident Zed Nelson tackles gentrification by looking at Hoxton Street – for years a bastion of East End cockneyism with its pie and mash shop, fruit’n’veg market and more pubs than can possibly be healthy on one street. Nelson filmed for four years, capturing the end of a way of life as the craft beer shops and art galleries move in, followed by property developers catching the whiff of profit.
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