RAZING LIBERTY SQUARE
Running Time: 86 min. (USA)
World Premiere at Hot Docs Festival
Florida seems like a paradise when you see it advertised but in the Centre of Florida is a community of people living in Liberty Square who were pushed away from the gorgeous sandy beaches into a world of hell. Politicians and developers will say and do anything to push their agenda to their benefit while lying to the people who their agendas will hurt.
A community of mostly black, low income families struggles to survive in the ever gentrification of the cities outside of downtown Florida. You can see the skyline of Condos on the edge of the water that are getting flooded after every major storm while the developers are pushing for the takeover of the dry land in the middle of Florida to exploit the land for their financial gains. They promise the residents the world and that they will be building better housing for them but what is the reality? The housing changes to Private corporations who are able to raise the cost to live in these homes forcing the long time residents to find alternative housing. For the world to see they say that no residents have been displaced but in reality the majority of them have.
Where do these people go when you push them out for bigger and better and more expensive housing? The irony of this build is that from the outside it looks pretty but it's still failing from the inside.
The women of this community try and do what's right for their families but how do you know if it's the right thing if the people in control don't tell you the truth?
This is a look at one city but also spreading like a virus throughout the world. Climate Change migration as well as war, and economic struggles have been displacing people at a rapid pace.
Eventually you run out of places to go and then what?
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