Student Filmmakers Expose Subprime Loan Scandal
September 11, 2009 by admin
Aha! Sarah Friedland saw the pink slip in her mailbox, a notice that the post office was holding an item for her. Ms. Friedland, a graduate student at Hunter College in Manhattan, was sure a friend had sent her a package. But the mail turned out to be a registered letter from a lawyer who was very unhappy about a documentary film she is making on a subprime loan scandal in Brooklyn.
One sentence near the end summed up his message in boldface capital letters: “You are hereby ordered to cease and desist” saying unpleasant — and what the lawyer maintained were untrue — things about the developers he represents.
“At first,” said Ms. Friedland, 29, “I was a little intimidated. Then I got mad.” Soon, she heard that the same letter had gone to two other students who were collaborating on the film, Kahil Shkymba and Joy Nayo Simmons. Read more about the subprime loan film…
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