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17 Jan 2020

In the 1970s, a string of devastating fires would help make the South Bronx a symbol of urban decay. In her documentary "Decade of Fire," co-director Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, who grew up in the South Bronx, tries to dissect and counter that negative image through...

10 Aug 2019

There’s a popular narrative that blames the blight and decline of the South Bronx in the 1970s on the working-class people who lived there. But a new film shows that it was landlords and the state who were responsible for the famous fires that ravaged...

16 Nov 2018

This Culture Mix Review of Decade of Fire is an accurate overview of how the film narrates the neglect by government of the South Bronx. "Gentrification and government restructuring of voting districts along racial lines are also offered as explanations for the fires, which the film...

11 Nov 2018

"The well-paced, tightly constructed, often crushingly emotional documentary is stirring and compelling throughout, illuminating both a dark chapter of New York City history and an all-too-common example of the extent to which inner-city people can be unjustly victimized by those in power." - NICK ROCCO SCALIA Read...

02 Nov 2018

Open host Rhina Valentin sits down the Co-Director/Producer Vivian Vazquez and Film Score Composer Arturo Ortiz to discuss Decade of Fire, a documentary that unveils the Bronx fires in the 1970’s and the effect it has had on the community. Watch it here....

20 Aug 2013

Check out this excellent radio show called "The Bronx, NY: Still Rising From the Ashes" that was part of the series "State of the Re: Union." Click here to listen. DECADE OF FIRE's Vivian Vazquez and Hetty Fox are both featured!...