Two seasons and eleven hours of award-winning television, BRICK CITY is a powerful documentary series Executive Produced by Oscar-Winning Actor Forest Whitaker and filmmakers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin. BRICK CITY features then Newark Mayor Cory Booker as he works with Police Director Garry McCarthy, and Blood gang member turned youth counselor, Jayda Ru – along with citizens on the frontlines of change in a city plagued with violence, poverty, and corruption. The series is a new beacon of hope for urban transformation in America. With unprecedented access to City Hall and Mayor Cory Booker and his administration, there has rarely ever been a more insightful look into the inner workings of local government and the real-world stakes for people fighting for change.

BRICK CITY won the Peabody Award “For its honest and passionate exposition of the lives and institutions that make up a community, and for its inspiring yet sometimes skeptical look at the trials embedded within the struggle for a better future.”

“Quite simply, you have never seen a docudrama that looks like this five-night, five-hour series” - Andy Dehnart of RealityBlurred.com - Review of Season one.

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