Documentary film explores the historic Black neighborhood of Liberty City, Miami.
Winner of the Impact Docs Award of Merit - Special Mention
Official Selection - 2020 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
Official Selection - 2020 Urban Film Festival
Far removed from the tony beaches of Miami’s south coast, Liberty City was created in the 1930s as a segregated neighborhood for Miami’s African American residents. The remains of the segregation wall still exist, running down 12th Avenue.
The Liberty City documentary focuses on community-led efforts to rebuild civil society in inner-city Miami. The film follows a group of local teenagers as they attempt to build a public monument on the segregation wall, whose meaning had been forgotten by many.
The film embeds with the Circle of Brotherhood, a group of men on a mission to rectify the problems in their community, and rolls with a Miami City police officer, born and raised in Liberty City, who now patrols the neighborhood and grapples with life as an African American police officer.
This is part 2 of the documentary Swing State Florida.
Learn more at www.swingstateflorida.com
A Bertelsmann Foundation Film
Filmed & Directed by Samuel George
Edited by Jeff Cook
Executive Produced by Irene Braam
Featuring The Circle of Brotherhood, Wall (In), Arts for Learning Miami, Miami Police Department, Valencia Under
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