My Documentary

“Next Stop, from commuting to community: the pandemic in my hometown” is a documentary film about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ben Asciutto’s hometown of Leonia, New Jersey. Thanks to the Pitt Honors College Creative Arts Fellowship, Ben spent the past year researching, interviewing and splicing together the twelve minute short film that would become “Next Stop”. The documentary examines how a change in the NYC commuter culture has made an impact in his town socially, economically and physically and what those larger effects mean for suburbs across the country.