State of Affairs

740 Park Avenue, New York City. This famous Manhattan address is currently home to the most billionaires in America. Across the Harlem River, 10 minutes to the north, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, home to the poorest congressional district in the United States where more than half the population needs food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. In the last 30 years, inequality has rocketed in the US – the American Dream only applies to those with money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill. Through the story of the two Park Avenues, director puts forward an eloquent argument that the extreme wealth of a few has been used to impose their ideas on the rest of America.