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Spanish Lake is a american film of genre Documentary released in USA on 13 june 2014

Spanish Lake (2014)

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Released in USA 13 june 2014
Length 1h18
OriginUSA
Rating64% 3.2332553.2332553.2332553.2332553.233255

Spanish Lake is a 2014 American documentary film directed by Phillip Andrew Morton and co-produced by Phillip Andrew Morton and Matt Jordan Smith. The film premiered
theatrically in St. Louis, Missouri on June 13, 2014. The documentary chronicles the area of Spanish Lake, Missouri and its transformation from a 1950’s white suburb to a mostly black population through a process known as white flight. The themes of the film parallel America’s growing political divide, underlying racism, and rise of anti-government
sentiment.

After strong ticket sales in St. Louis, the film received a limited release in Los Angeles and Dallas. Further theatrical expansion was halted in St. Louis in August 2014 after the shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Due to racial tensions in the city, Wehrenberg Theatres pulled the film from its planned release on September 5, 2014. The suppression of the film led to national media coverage, including an article by Deadline Hollywood. Spanish Lake was released to Video on demand on October 21, 2014 to critical acclaim. The DVD release came a month later on November 15, 2014.

Synopsis

Spanish Lake was named after the Spanish troops who stayed there while building a fortified post for Spain in 1768. The first American military installation in the Louisiana Territory, Fort Bellefontaine, was built there after famed explorers Lewis &Clark camped on the land at the start and end of their trip (1804–1806). Spanish Lake was a rural farming community for many years, until the 1950’s when neighborhoods of tract housing were built. The area became a rural refuge from St. Louis city and received an exclusively white population. The 1970’s saw the proliferation of dense apartment housing to Spanish Lake. African-Americans fleeing the failed Pruitt-Igoe public housing high rises in the city moved into the apartments via the Section 8 voucher system which immediately struck racial tensions in the area, particularly in local schools. The 1990’s saw a mass exodus of the white population, spurred on by blockbusting, a practice some U.S. real estate agents use to encourage white property owners to sell their houses quickly at a loss, implying the African-Americans moving into their neighborhood will depress their property values. The film begins in 2011, when a group of former residents known as the “Lakers”, revisit Spanish Lake for a reunion.

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