Academy-Award nominated filmmaker, Katja Esson‘s documentary, Razing Liberty Square will have its broadcast and streaming release on January 29.

“Razing Liberty Square highlights the current and compelling problem when community displacement and local neighborhood gentrification meets climate change.  Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the historic Liberty Square public housing project learn about a $300 million revitalization plan for their neighborhood, which has long suffered from disinvestment, they know that this sudden interest comes from the fact 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.”

Razing Liberty Square is directed/produced by Katja Esson. The film is produced by Ann Bennett and Corinna Sager with Executive Producers Grace Lay, Sumalee Montano, Sally Joe Fifer, Lois Vossen, Sheri Sobrato, Lisa and Matthew Sonsini, Anja Murmann, Sabine Schenk, Leslie Fields-Cruz, Denise A. Greene, Jody Allen, and Megan Gelstein.

The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival, then went on to the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and won the Changemaker Film Award at the Woodstock Film Festival. 

Check out the film’s trailer below: