OUR CATALOG

“One of [Hot Docs's] top films this year. . .The film does such a good job connecting viewers to its central characters that the ending feels like saying goodbye to friends — a rare achievement in documentaries about climate change and housing policy.”

"Explores the ways in which the affordable housing crunch, cultural displacement and other problems are creating a new class of Black and brown activists... determined to educate their neighbors about the connections between climate change and the housing crisis."

“This year’s Change Maker Award was presented to a film that goes above and beyond in its effort to document the adverse effects of climate change, racism, and the housing crisis, and protect those who need that most.”

"The story of Liberty Square is also a cautionary tale of the future of many low-income communities in the face of climate change displacement. It's a story of racial segregation and a haunting reminder of Jim Crow laws."

"Makes it seem as if solutions aren’t out of reach and that paradise may not be a place so much as the people around that can come together to make it one."

“Filmmaker Katja Esson (an Oscar-nominee for the short documentary "Ferry Tales") examines how the incursion of developers brings a concomitant influx of community organizers trying to warn residents about lofty promises of affordable housing that are, for many, too good to be true.”

“As rising sea-levels threaten the city of Miami, one local black community fight to save their neighbourhood from property developers and climate gentrification.”

“Razing Liberty Square follows the neighborhood’s residents as they combat ‘Climate Gentrification’ and try desperately to hold onto the community and culture that the city threatens to wrest away. ‘It’s a really terrific film about social injustice around climate change in Miami. Just wonderfully done.'"