 The film, which took Pehme and his co-directors Daniel DiMauro and Dylan Bank five years to make, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.Early in Pehme's journalism career, he served as a columnist and managing editor for "The Queens Courier", a community newspaper.From January 2008 to January 2010, Pehme wrote "The Brooklyn Optimist", a blog focused primarily on politics, the arts, and community empowerment in Brooklyn.