Katja Esson/2023/85 min/Climate, Justice, Built Environment, Historical Perspectives
FILM DESCRIPTION: Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators’ market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike. This film was a winner of the Woodstock Film Festival’s 2023 Change Maker Award.
Recommended Age 13+
The short film “Painting by Numbers” by Radheya Jegatheva will precede the feature film. “Painting by Numbers” won the Sally Stovall Planet Warrior Prize for Creativity in the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest 2023.
IN PERSON: Saturday, April 20, 6 to 8:30 p.m. CDT
Bethel New Life, Chapel [West]
1150 N Lamon Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Doors open at 5:15 for snacks/refreshments before start time.
Arrive early to talk with action partners, avoid lines and get best seats.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.
DISCUSSION CO-FACILITATORS:
Hollee Mangrum Willis, Bethel New Life
J'Niya Blunt, Your Passion 1st
Bethel purchased the 9.2 acre campus of the closed St. Ann Hospital for community partners to transform the chapel into a theater. The historic chapel designed by Hugh M.G garden, reflects the design influence of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright and development.