"Everything Is Different Now is a very beautiful film that is both art and testimony."  
- Sharon Marcus, Columbia University

"A very important film on many levels.... the soundtrack [is] excellent"
- Independent Film Quarterly

"A valuable contribution to New Yorkiana and urbanism in general, this beautifully shot and intelligently balanced film charts the metamorphosis of neighborhood into community, thanks to natural disaster. We need more fine-grained studies like this and Frederick Wiseman's 'In Jackson Heights,' that take us into the life of a city and show us the dynamics of what one commentator here calls 'learning through adaptation.' " 
- Phillip Lopate, award-winning writer and film critic

"A very subtle and intelligent piece of work. The tension between the progressively more threatening future and the conviction of those who call it home to remain is done very well because the film lets the two sides (not really opposites but distinct emphases) make their own cases. Nothing heavy handed or intrusive. A superb piece of work."  
- Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor, Princeton University,Co-editor, Climatic Change

"A celebration of how people in an area can cooperate to help recover from the damage done to their community."
- William Wolf, film critic, former Chair, New York Film Critics Circle

In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy pitched a forgotten New York City boardwalk off its pilings and just as suddenly jutted Rockaway, the city’s remote barrier island, into the eyes of the world. Everything Is Different Now documents the rebuilding effort and unfolds the larger tale of a jazz-era beach community, already struggling to re-define itself, now facing the increased precariousness of life on a low-lying island. Love for beach in the time of global warming adds tension to the stories of diverse Rockawayans: surfers, cooks, former police officers, construction workers, artists. Filmed in the summer and autumn of 2013 by documentarian Jennifer Callahan, who chronicled Rockaway’s storied history and tentative re-emergence in her 2010 work, The Bungalows of Rockaway, Everything Is Different Now celebrates the famously carefree Rockaway spirit as residents and businesses prepare for the next, bigger storm. 

The following people, who live, have lived, and/or work on Rockaway, appear in the film. In alphabetical order:

Klaus Biesenbach, Jeanne DuPont, Andrew Day Field, Claudette Flatow, Richard George, Blaze Jones-Yellin, Uma Karl, Rashida Jackson, Judy Kenny, Heather Kramer, Roseanna Marshall, Chris Martin, Ron Moelis, Kim Moore, Thomas Murgolo, Denis O'Hanlon, Susan O'Hanlon, Michael Oppenheimer, Bryant Pearson, David Selig, Diwa Tamrong, Annie Watson

Everything Is Different Now: Rockaway After the Storm (53 min)

CREDITS

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After You've Gone performed by:
Voiceover of Moby Dick line by:

Complete credits are in the film

A production of:
The Bungalows of Rockaway, LLC

FUNDERS: 
We are very grateful to our generous, main funder: 
Leon Levy Foundation