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Where Credit Is Due
David Wilson Scott/Michelle Genece | USA | 1995 | 12 min. | documentary video

Although "redlining"--the name given to the flight of commercial banks from inner-city areas and their refusal to lend on good terms to the residents of these communities--has been repeatedly exposed and brought to national attention, the practice continues. Activists Mark Winston Griffith and Errol Louis founded the Central Brooklyn Partnership to stem the flow of capital from the country's largest African-American community. Where Credit is Due profiles their work and the evolution of the Partnership's community development credit union in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, only a few miles from Wall Street, but worlds apart.

PRODUCED, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: David Wilson Scott
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/CO-DIRECTOR: Michelle Genece
PRODUCTION CREW: Tanya Young, Christopher Brown, Xiang Xie

Original language is English

New York Premiere, 1996 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by David Wilson Scott, 398 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217, Tel: (718) 857-9890 Fax: (718) 649-5861.

David Wilson Scott
David Wilson Scott made Where Credit Is Due while on a Charles H. Revson Fellowship for the Future of New York City at Columbia University. Seventeen years ago, with one of its first grants, the Revson Foundation established the fellowship to enable men and women who had already made a significant contribution to New York City through their work to study for a year at Columbia. Marc Griffith, the executive director of the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union in Bedford Stuyvesant, and David Scott, a former Dinkins Administration official and filmmaker, were both fellows during 1993-94. During that time, they came up with the idea for this film. Clifford Rosenthal, another fellow, was also involved. Rosenthal was the executive director of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions and has been an advisor to the Brooklyn Credit Union from its inception, is working with Scott and Griffith to disseminate the film to the Federation's national membership.

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