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Award-Winning Documentary Razing Liberty Square Recognized with 2025 Emmy Nomination

PBS Documentary Razing Liberty Square Recognized with 2025 Emmy Nomination

The critically acclaimed documentary Razing Liberty Square, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Katja Esson, has been honored with a nomination for the 2025 Emmy Awards. This powerful film delves into the pressing issues of climate gentrification, housing inequality, and systemic racism by chronicling the transformation of Miami’s historically Black Liberty City neighborhood. As rising sea levels make inland, higher-elevation areas more desirable, long-standing residents face displacement under the guise of revitalization. Through intimate storytelling and compelling visuals, Razing Liberty Square sheds light on the human impact of environmental and social injustices, making it a standout contender in this year’s Emmy race.Letterboxd • Your life in film+8Home | Women Make Movies+8Home | Women Make Movies+8hiff.org+11Home | Women Make Movies+11razinglibertysquare.org+11Home | Women Make Movies+2PBS: Public Broadcasting Service+2PBS: Public Broadcasting Service+2

Razing Liberty Square has garnered significant acclaim on the film festival circuit, earning several prestigious awards that underscore its powerful storytelling and timely subject matter. Notably, the documentary received the World of HA Change Maker Award at the 2023 Woodstock Film Festival, recognizing its impactful exploration of climate gentrification and housing inequality. Additionally, the film was honored at the Jackson Wild Media Awards, further cementing its status as a compelling and socially relevant work.

A few of the Reviews:

For more information and to watch the documentary, visit the official PBS page.

2025-05-03T10:40:36+00:00May 3, 2025|events, news, reviews|
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We’re Not Done Yet – To Play at Sundance

2025 Sundance Film Festival Unveils Short Film Program Presented by Vimeo

We’re Not Done Yet / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Joseph Longo, Director: Sofia Camargo, Producers: Pauline Glomaud-Murmann, Louis Anania) — Alex visits his newly single mother, Bettina, for a weekend at her getaway beach house. But when he is confronted with her newfound independence, Alex is forced to face his own controlling nature. Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Joseph Longo, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Doron JéPaul Mitchell, Lauren Norvelle. Available online for Public.

2025-01-17T12:00:11+00:00January 17, 2025|events, news, screenings|
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We’re Not Done Yet – Reviews

We’re Not Done Yet

Alex visits his newly single mother for a weekend at her beach house. But when he is confronted with her new independence, Alex is forced to face his own controlling nature.

FILM REVIEWS

We’re Not Done Yet

The Quiet Chaos of Coming Home

2025-01-17T11:52:49+00:00January 17, 2025|events, news, screenings|
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Coming soon! Theatrical release in New York and Las Angeles – Razing Liberty Square.

Update about our new film that is coming soon theatrically to New York.-  Razing Liberty Square.
Shorelightpictures Pictures is so excited and proud that we are beginning our theatrical run opening in NYC on Friday, October 27 until November 2 at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema.  

Below are the dates and times of our screenings after which we’ll have a panel discussion:

  • Fri Oct 27, 7pm: Housing Justice/ Public Housing NYC & Miami
    Q&A with Director Katja Esson, Protagonist Aaron McKinney and NYC Housing Justice Organizers, moderated by Neyda Martinez (“Decade of Fire”) 
  • Sat Oct 28, 2pm: Save Section 9 / NYCHA
    Panel/Workshop on Public Housing
  • Sat Oct 28, 4:30pm: Storytelling
    Q&A with Director Katja Esson, Editors Flavia de Souza and Toby Shimin moderated by Carla Gutierrez (“RGB”, “Julia”)
  • Sat Oct 28, 7pm: What is Climate Gentrification?
    Q&A with Director Katja Esson, Protagonist Aaron McKinney and Marika Dias (Managing Director, Safety Net Project, Urban Justice League) moderated by Kelly Anderson (“My Brooklyn”, “Rabble Rousers”)
  • Sun Oct 29, 4pm & 6:30pm:
    Q&A with Director Katja Esson and Producers Ann Bennett and Corinna Sager introduced by Sam Pollard 

The  New York theatrical engagement comes at a critical time in the city- when the New York City Housing Authority is set to demolish and redevelop two iconic public housing communities in Chelsea- the Fulton House & Elliot-Chelsea Houses home to 5000 New Yorkers.  The city is working with Related Companies on this plan—the same developers whose work in Miami we chronicle in Razing Liberty Square.

Shorelightpictures Pictures  will also have a theatrical run in Los Angeles starting November 10 at the 

Lumiere
9036 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Since premiering at Hot Docs this year, Razing Liberty Square has gone to be the closing night film at DocLands, Human Rights Watch New York, and an official selection at Sheffield, Hot Springs, New Orleans, Hawaii, and Woodstock Film Festival where it won the Change Maker Award.  

More About the Film

Miami is ground zero for sea-level rise. When residents of the Liberty Square public housing community learn about a $300 million revitalization project in 2015, they know that this sudden interest comes from the fact that their neighborhood is located on the highest-and-driest ground in the city. Now they must prepare to fight a new form of racial injustice—Climate Gentrification. 

For the New York release:
Full dates and times here

See you soon!

2023-10-23T00:11:05+00:00October 23, 2023|events, news, screenings|
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Razing Liberty Square – Press and Reviews

PRESS

2023-06-06T09:02:42+00:00June 6, 2023|news, reviews, screenings|
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Razing Liberty Square – Premiers Soon!

Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the historic Liberty Square public housing project learn about a $300 million revitalization plan for their neighborhood, which has long suffered from disinvestment, they know  that this sudden interest comes from the fact that their neighborhood is located on the highest-and-driest ground in the city. Now they must prepare to fight a new form of racial injustice – Climate Gentrification.

World Premiere at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto

https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-docs-festival/films/2023/razing-liberty-square

US Premiere at DocLands Film Festival in San Francisco

https://www.doclands.com/razing-liberty-square/

NYC Premiere at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival NY

https://ff.hrw.org/film/razing-liberty-square?city=New%20York

2023-04-28T12:10:47+00:00April 24, 2023|events, news, screenings|
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Anna Paquin & Ray Winstone Starring In Stephen Moyer-Directed ‘A Bit of Light’

Read the deadline.com Article:

Anna Paquin & Ray Winstone Starring In Stephen Moyer-Directed ‘A Bit of Light’

By Tom Grater

Senior Reporter & Deputy Film Editor, International @tomsmovies

 

2021-10-28T14:33:44+00:00October 28, 2021|news|
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Mickey and the Bear – Cannes Acid Selection

Mickey and the Bear


Un film de Annabelle Attanasio États-Unis – 2019 – 89 min

Mickey Peck, une adolescente du Montana, a la lourde responsabilité de s’occuper de son père, un vétéran accro aux opiacés. Quand l’opportunité se présente de quitter pour de bon le foyer, elle fait face à un choix impossible…

Mickey Peck, headstrong teen from Montana, is faced with the responsibility to take care of her opioid- addicted veteran father. When she receives the opportunity to leave her home for good, she must make an impossible decision…

Avec :
Camila Morrone , James Badge Dale , Calvin Demba , Ben Rosenfield et Rebecca Henderson

À PROPOS DE MICKEY AND THE BEAR

Pour survivre, faut-il s’enfuir ? Creusant le sillon d’un cinéma indépendant américain soucieux de se confronter au réel, la jeune cinéaste Annabelle Attanasio met en récit le désir d’émancipation d’une adolescente. Situé au fin fond du Montana, ce premier long-métrage déploie une trajectoire qui multiplie les fausses pistes, sachant éviter, comme son héroïne, les écueils d’un parcours où tout serait joué d’avance. Porté par une mise en scène élégante et épurée, incarné par une comédienne fascinante, ce premier long- métrage questionne la place de la femme dans une société patriarcale. Les figures de la virilité sont ainsi mises à jour sans ostentation, mais avec un souci critique. Ici le stress post-traumatique du soldat, là les armes à feu ou encore la question de l’héritage familial. C’est face à toutes ces brutalités qu’on ne doit jamais abdiquer pour vivre sa vie, pour devenir l’auteur de son propre destin.

Savoir penser son époque sans être didactique, savoir subtilement mettre à nu la violence du monde sans en être fasciné et croire que par le romanesque tout peut être divulgué. Voici, sans doute, la force intime de ce film qui nous bouleverse.

Must one flee in order to survive? Furrowing the lands of a certain independent American cinema concerned with confronting reality, the young filmmaker Annabelle Attanasio tells a tale of a teenager’s desire to emancipate. Set in the depths of Montana, this first feature film unravels a journey, which accumulates false leads while astutely avoiding, along with its heroine, the pitfalls of a path where all would be known from the onset. Carried by an elegant and pared down mise en scène, embodied by a fascinating actress, this first film questions the place given to women in a patriarchal society. Figures of virility are unveiled without ostentation, but from a critical standpoint. Here the PTSD in a soldier, there fire arms or even the question of a family inheritance. Faced with all these brutalities, one must never abdicate. To live one’s life. To become the sole author of one’s destiny.

Thinking the era without being didactic. Knowing how to uncover the violence of the world without succumbing to fascination. Believing that through the strength of fiction all can be imparted. There lies the intimate force of this film, which so overwhelms us.

LA PROGRAMMATION ACID CANNES 2019 :

ACID filmmakers are thrilled to present this year in Cannes, a program of 9 feature-length films of which 7 are first time features. Films will be shown in the presence of the film crews and of their supporting filmmakers from ACID.

5 fictions and 4 documentaries, 4 of which were directed or codirected by women.

This program is enhanced by a focus on Argentinian cinema, ACID TRIP#3ARGENTINE, in partnership with Argentinian filmmakers of the PCI.

« As the world faces deep changes, this 2019 ACID program honors vanishing points and celebrates paths with which destinies are built, where bodies instead of disappearing or submitting, assert their presence, as a starting point for organized resistance.

Tales of fantasy, emancipatory fables, documentary realism? The cinema on which we thrive defies categories, articulates unseen or forgotten esthetical blends. Characters do not so much transcend their destiny to reach for the universal, rather they embody their destiny within their singularity and intensity. Granting us privileged access to what is strange, foreign. A curious paradox? Rather the means for us filmmakers, forever and again, to share the world. »

Programmers filmmakers 2019

Sylvie Ballyot, Aurélia Barbet, Marta Bergman, Michaël Dacheux, Marina Déak, Delphine Deloget, Jean-Louis Gonnet, Diego Governatori, Hanna Ladoul, Marco La Via, Vladimir Perišić, Clément Schneider, Idir Serghine, Christian Sonderegger, Laure Vermeersch.

2021-10-28T14:13:24+00:00May 13, 2019|news|
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Mickey and the Bear – Distribution deal with UTOPIA

Exclusive report in Screen Daily: https://www.screendaily.com/news/cannes-acid-selection-mickey-and-the-bear-on-inaugural-utopia-slate-exclusive/5139305.article

Former Gunpowder & Sky head of global sales David Betesh arrives in Cannes with an inaugural sales slate for Utopia that includes Cannes Acid selection Mickey And The Bear and Lynn Shelton’s Sword Of Trust.

The Utopia slate kicks off with Actress Annabelle Attanassio’s directorial debut Mickey And The Bear (pictured), which premiered at SXSW earlier this year and stars Camila Morrone as a headstrong teen who must choose between caring for her opioid-addicted veteran father Hank (James Badge Dale) or leaving her Montana home to start her own life.

Shelton’s Sword Of Trust also launched at SXSW and will open in the US through IFC Films. Marc Maron (Glow) and Jillian Bell from Sundance breakout Brittany Runs A Marathon star in the comedic tale of a family heirloom that alt-history conspiracy theorists believe offers proof that the South won the Civil War.

Schwartzman’s (The Unicorn, Dreamland) upcoming feature The Argument stars Dan Fogler from the Fantastic Beasts franchise, Maggie Q, and Emma Bell from The Walking Dead in a comedy about a couple who get into an argument that ruins their cocktail party, only for the guests to decide they should recreate the evening to determine who was right.

Award-winning documentary Fiddlin’ by Julie Simone rounds out the slate, and profiles the rich history, music, and people of the world’s oldest Fiddler’s Convention in the Appalachian Mountains, captured on film for the first time in its 80-year history.

“We’re honored and thrilled to be representing such a remarkable slate of films,” said Utopia head of sales and acquisitions Betesh. “With a range that includes both a celebrated stalwart director like Lynn Shelton and also the absolute brightest of newcomers in Annabelle Attanasio, it’s a slate that we strongly feel constitutes the very best of American independent cinema.”

Schwartzman co-founded the company, which will also launch a technology platform later this year to offer multiple services including a streaming platform.

2021-02-08T09:06:03+00:00May 13, 2019|news, screenings|
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