About FOREIGN PARTS - J.P. Sniadecki (interview)

Just next door to JFK airport, Willets Point is a Queens neighbourhood chock full of garages, mechanic shops and car-wreckers. Here, one can find spare parts for any car in the world. The graveyard of car culture, Willets Point employs people on society’s fringe. Now this place, once left to its own devices for years, is threatened to disappear by a plan for urban remodelling.

Movie Details

Language: English

Year of production: 2010

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Country: United States

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    51° Festival dei Popoli

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  • Festival dei Popoli on 25 November at 09:35

    51 FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI

    GIAN PAOLO PAOLI AWARD to the
    BEST ETHNO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM
    FOREIGN PARTS, by Véréna Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki (USA)
    Motivation: "For its courage of questioning the traditional approach of anthropological research by choosing the U.S. as the object of its investigation. The desperate community living in the Willets Point junk-yard embodies the conflicts of the American Dream."