QUEST, a cinema-verité-styled documentary shot over the course of a decade in North Philly, is hoping to transcend the screen.

The QUEST Community Engagement Project, in partnership with Resolve Philadelphia and Code for Philly, will spend two days meeting with North Philly residents and building tech tools to help with the area’s most pressing challenges. The event, titled #QUESTHacks, kicks off this Friday Nov. 2 at North Philly’s Church of the Advocate.

“We’re bringing together technologists, community partners, activists, journalists, and neighbors for a two days of problem-solving and creating solutions to community-based problems with the help of data, design, and technology,” said Code for Philly’s co-director Toni McIntyre, in a blog post.

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