''Brick City'' is an American documentary series on the

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, created and directed by filmmakers

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and

Marc Levin Marc Levin is an American independent film producer and director. He is best known for his '' Brick City'' TV series, which won the 2010 Peabody award and was nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking and his dramat ...

. The series captures the daily drama of a community striving to improve. Against great odds,

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's citizens and its mayor,

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, fight to raise the city out of nearly a half century of violence, poverty and corruption. It won a

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in 2009 "for its honest and passionate exposition of the lives and institutions that make up a community, and for its inspiring yet sometimes skeptical look at the trials embedded within the struggle for a better future."69th Annual Peabody Awards
May 2010.

Series

''Brick City'' premiered on September 21, 2009. The series is produced and directed by award-winning filmmakers

(Slam, Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags, Gang War: Bangin' in Little Rock) and

(The Last Party, Jails Hospitals and Hip-Hop), who also created the series. Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker

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executive produces. Executive producers for Sundance Channel are Evan Shapiro, Sarah Barnett, Mala Chapple and Michael Klein. The production team went on to create ''

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'', which is a successor to the show.

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