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In 2012, Jimmy Hilaire was killed by police while brutally biting a man's face. When details of the incident leaked to the press, the international news media labeled Hilaire the "Miami Zombie". Profoundly shaken, Jimmy's brother Kenson must disprove the blatant lies told by powerful media and religious leaders about Jimmy to preserve his brother's memory in this true Miami story.
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As rising seas threaten Miami’s luxurious beachfront, wealthy property owners are pushing inland to higher ground. The historically black neighborhood of Liberty City has been ignored by developers and policy-makers alike, for generations. Located 10 feet above sea level, Liberty City now becomes more attractive with each rising tide. A new documentary film from Academy Award nominated filmmaker Katja Esson begins at the very moment when Liberty Square is being razed to the ground to make way for the new “Liberty City Rising”: a $300 million mixed income development.
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After the recent passing of the family's difficult and ornery patriarch, two sons and their father hesitantly confront complicated emotions as they search his home for personal items and possible heirlooms he may have left behind.
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An illustrious master tailor confronts the very real threat of displacement in Miami's historic, turmoil-born Dominican neighborhood of Allapattah.
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A middle-aged mother of two reflects on her emotional decision to immigrate to the United States some 30 years earlier, in this reflective documentary short that borrows its title from a uniquely powerful poem by the legendary exiled Cuban writer Lourdes Casal.
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Birds of Paradise honors and celebrates the enduring nature of queer and marginalized people to shape themselves into something that is desirable, vulnerable, fierce and reborn. Birds of Paradise honors and celebrates the enduring nature of queer and marginalized people to shape themselves into something that is desirable, vulnerable, fierce and reborn.
Commissioned by the Adrienne Arsht Center, Birds of Paradise was created by the Pioneer Winter Collective and produced in collaboration with the White Elephant Group.
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Longtime Instagram penpals Jean and Nina meet in person for the first time, re-defining their relationship as they stumbling through a deceptive, although well-meaning dinner with Nina's ultra-conservative father.
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A young couple shares seemingly innocuous conversation in bed as we explore the emotional vastness of their short tenure in marriage.