Slumlord Millionaire
In New York City’s most quickly gentrifying neighborhoods, a group of fearless residents, activists, and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords and developers for the basic human right to a home.
WINNER DOC NYC Audience Award 2024
WINNER CAAMFest Best Documentary 2025
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PRESS QUOTES
“As Rents Skyrocketed, They Fought Back: Award-Winning Doc ‘Slumlord Millionaire’ Acquired By PBS Series ‘VOCES’ “
“The PBS series VOCES has acquired U.S. broadcast and streaming rights to Slumlord Millionaire, the David vs. Goliath story of people fighting back against the skyrocketing cost of rent in New York City. The film—winner of the Audience Award at DOC NYC in November—will open in theaters next spring, before the VOCES streaming and broadcast launch on PBS in summer 2025. Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez directed the feature documentary, with Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Stanley Nelson and Emmy nominee Marcia Smith and VOCES‘ Sandie Viquez Pedlow serving as executive producers.”
Matthew Carey, Deadline
"Slumlord Millionaire" was recognized with the Audience Award at this year's Oscar-qualifying festival.”
Samantha Bergeson, Indiewire
“Slumlord Millionaire: how landlords, politicians and developers are fueling the housing crisis. New documentary examines how predatory practices, from inhospitable conditions to deed theft, affect New Yorkers”
Davis Smith, The Guardian
“Slumlord Millionaire” is a documentary that follows a group of renters and activists in the city who say landlords and developers are forcing them out of their homes and gentrifying their neighborhoods. It explores the housing and affordability crisis that has gripped the city for years — an issue that is on the minds of voters ahead of this month’s Democratic primary for mayor. Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching, co-directors for the film, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall.”
NY1, Inside City Hall
“The Crime of Treating Housing as a Commodity” “At its most optimistic, Slumlord Millionaire highlights the power of tenant organizing.”
Fran Quigley, Jacobin
“Rounding out our weeklong partnership with DOC NYC, we speak with the directors behind the new film "Slumlord Millionaire." The documentary follows New Yorkers from all different parts of the city fighting against corrupt and abusive landlords. Director Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez join us to discuss the film.”
“What makes Slumlord Millionaire compelling is its refusal to sanitize the emotional toll of housing insecurity.”
Paul Emmanuel Enicola, The Movie Buff