Matt Tyrnauer is a US director and regular contributor to Vanity Fair. His film, Valentino: The Last Emperor was short-listed for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award. His documentary, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, tells the story of an epic struggle in the early 1960s, when activist Jane Jacobs took on powerful developer Robert Moses over the fate of New York city. Moses knocked down neighbourhoods to build high-rises and motorways, while Jacobs led a grass-roots campaign to thwart his plan to plough an expressway across town, right through Lower Manhattan. Citizen Jane is screening at the NZ International Film Festival.
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