2024 Documentary Series



January 24th at 7:30pm EST

Razing Liberty Square

DOCUMENTARY - 86 minutes

Directed by Katja Esson

Description: Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators’ market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike.


February 28th at 7:30pm EST

Breaking the News

DOCUMENTARY - 99 minutes

Directed by Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston, Chelsea Hernandez, and Diane M. Quon

Description: Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in flux, and the voices often left out of the narrative, the documentary Breaking the News shows change doesn’t come easy.


March 27th at 7:30pm EST

Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s

DOCUMENTARY - 60 minutes

Directed by Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green

Description: Three people—a political cartoonist, a mother turned boxing coach, and an optician—navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease.


May 1st at 7:30pm EST

The Tuba Thieves

DOCUMENTARY - 92 minutes

Directed by Alison O’Daniel

Description: Three people—a political cartoonist, a mother turned boxing coach, and an optician—navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease.