For Immediate Release:

San Francisco - Directors Francine Cavanaugh, A. Mark Liiv, and Adams Wood announce the release of their feature-length documentary, Boom - The Sound of Eviction (Produced by Whispered Media, 96 minutes). Boom explores the relationships between the dot-com boom (and bust) and community displacement and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the largely working class and Latino Mission District.

By turns humorous and scathing, Boom delves into the ironies and contradictions of the "New Economy" and delivers a potent social critique that is ambitious in its scope while remaining close to the human scale. The viewer moves easily between dot-com party crashing at one end of the economic spectrum and painful moments with evicted families at the other. Boom features interviews with dot-com workers, real estate developers, and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, as well as those who challenged the new economic order through community organizing, electoral politics, and direct action.

In addition to doggedly pursuing the daily drama of San Francisco gentrification and resistance, the filmmakers have amassed an enormous amount of material from which to fashion their motion picture. Boom's eclectic pallet of imagery includes 60's-era tourist movies, educational films of the 1950's, and the filmmakers' own original footage, documenting an era that has come and gone. Dramatic footage of communities in conflict brings you out into the streets while experts and community members themselves offer analysis of the social and historic forces that have shaped the current political landscape.

Boom's dynamic soundtrack features music by popular artists such as Antibalas, Aztlan Underground, ColdCut, Fugazi, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Mushroom and Tortoise, as well as original sound design by Alex Theory.

For more information about Boom - The Sound of Eviction, please visit www.boomthemovie.org.

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