NY Theatrical Premiere
Q&A Details
Fri Oct 27, 7pm: Behind the Razing Story
Post-Screening Q&A with Director Katja Esson, Protagonist Aaron McKinney, Housing Justice Organizer Marquis Jenkins. Moderated by Neyda Martinez.
Sat Oct 28, 2pm: Saving Public Housing
Post-Screening Panel and Workshop with Save Section 9
Sat Oct 28, 4:30pm: In the Edit Room
Post-Screening Q&A with Director Katja Esson and Editors Flavia de Souza and Toby Shimin. Moderated by Carla Gutierrez.
Sat Oct 28, 7pm: Changing Cities: Climate Change, Gentrification and the Affordable Housing Crisis
Post-Screening Q&A with Director Katja Esson, Protagonist Aaron McKinney, and Marika Dias (Managing Director, Safety Net Project, Urban Justice Center). Moderated by Kelly Anderson.
Sun Oct 29, 4pm: The History – and Future – We Try to Ignore
Post-Screening Q&A with Director Katja Esson and Producers Ann Bennett and Corinna Sager. Introduction by Sam Pollard.
Sun Oct 29, 6:30pm: The History – and Future – We Try to Ignore
Post-Screening Q&A with Director Katja Esson and Producers Ann Bennett and Corinna Sager. Introduction by Sam Pollard.
Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the Liberty Square public-housing community learn about a $300 million revitalization project, 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 fight a new form of racial injustice—Climate Gentrification.
Razing Liberty Square is a character-driven verité documentary that weaves personal stories in and out of the larger social justice narrative of Climate Gentrification. The stories originate at the intersection of race, climate, and socio-economic gentrification and interrogate assumptions of who matters—and who doesn’t—and about land and who controls it.