Oren Goldenberg is an active community builder in Detroit. His work ranges from feature films to complex real estate developments, creating new rituals to free dance parties. He focuses on building sustainable platforms for artists and residents of Detroit.
Goldenberg is the lead developer and co-owner of Dreamtroit, a $30mil mixed-use artist-led affordable housing project in the Northwest Goldberg neighborhood of Detroit. Goldenberg has also spent the past 15 years revitalizing the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, the last synagogue in Detroit. Since 2009, Goldenberg has operated Cass Corridor Films, a film production company by and for the residents of Detroit.
Goldenberg is a 2013 Kresge Fellow in the Visual Arts, Best Filmmaker (Real Detroit, 2011), Best Michigan Filmmaker (AAFF, 2006), Michigan Historic Preservation Network Tax Credit Award recipient (2024) and sits on the board of the Downtown Synagogue and Make Art Work 501(c)3.
You can read about his work in the New York Times and Hyperallergic.
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