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 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.
Touring with the Film
Ronald Baez (Producer) is a Caribbean-American screenwriter, director, and award-winning immersive media artist from Miami, FL. His most recent film project, SCENES FROM OUR YOUNG MARRIAGE, premiered at the Borscht and Miami Film Festivals, before being distributed PBS Broadcasting and Seed&Spark Online SVOD. Baez was awarded the Fledgling Fund's Rapid Deployment Grant in 2018 for his doc series about global warming and sea level rise in Miami, KING TIDE. Hew also received the NAB Futures Innovator's Award in 2019 for his ongoing immersive reality projects produced in collaboration with the University of Florida's MET Lab. He also serves as the Artistic Director of the After School Film Institute, a nonprofit organization mentoring at risk, inner-city students in South Florida.
Schedule
Florida Circuit
Tuesday, April 16, 2024: Sarasota, FL - WSLR
Wednesday, April 17, 2024: Fort Myers, FL - Lee County Alliance of the Arts