A pair of filmmakers has been walking the halls of Government Center in recent days, working on a documentary about everyone’s favorite subject: local politics.
Roxana Walker-Canton, the documentary’s director and producer and a film professor at the University of Florida, was a longtime Hamden resident until she moved last summer. Like her subjects, she also was involved in politics, holding seats on the Board of Education and Democratic Town Committee.
Called “One Town at a Time,” the hour-length film will focus on how a group of Democrats brought about a sea change in town government, ousting a more moderate wing of their own party. Walker-Canton hopes to demonstrate how “what’s going on here can be a model for other American towns that want to transform…to be a town that’s focused on equity, justice and transparency,” she said.
Hamden’s political shift is perhaps best symbolized by Mayor Lauren Garrett taking office in September after contentious primary and general elections.
