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Bushwick Takes a Turn as an Alternate Reality in the New Dystopian Thriller “Diverge”

In "Diverge," a desperate husband returns from the future to his past in present-day Bushwick to fix his life.

By Emilie Ruscoe

Sept. 26, 2016 · 2 min read

Bushwick Takes a Turn as an Alternate Reality in the New Dystopian Thriller “Diverge”
A scene from “Diverge,” courtesy of Young Gunner Films.
Arts & Culture

Bushwick Takes a Turn as an Alternate Reality in the New Dystopian Thriller “Diverge”

In "Diverge," a desperate husband returns from the future to his past in present-day Bushwick to fix his life.

· 2 min read
Bushwick Takes a Turn as an Alternate Reality in the New Dystopian Thriller “Diverge”

In a chilling new movie screening at this year’s Bushwick Film Festival, present day Bushwick and Ridgewood appear as the setting for the protagonist’s haunting alternate past.

” Diverge ,” an independent science fiction thriller written, directed and produced by Bushwick local James Morrison, kicks off in a future in which a city, presumably New York, burns on a…

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