Liberty
Faren Humes
Drama | United States | 2019 | 16min45
Best friends Milagros (Loggy) and Alex have been neighbors their entire lives in Miami’s redeveloping Liberty Square. Loggy detaches when she learns that Alex is being displaced and relocated to another community. The two are chosen to dance together at the community’s groundbreaking ceremony but their plans are derailed when the memorial of Milagro’s slain mother is confiscated. The integrity of their friendship is tested as they search for its whereabouts.
Milagros Gilbert, Alexandra Jackson, Willnya Jenkins, MacArthur Richard,
Mary Griffin
Faren Humes' (Miami, Fl, 1986) work has screened at Miami Film Festival, Blackstar Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, Chicago Int'l Film Festival + the Mobile Museum of Art; with recognition from the Directors Guild of America + the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her latest work, Liberty, is the Jury Award winner for Best Short at the Berlinale's Generation 14+, SXSW + Miami Film Festival. She is the recipient of the Sundance-Knight Fellowship (2016), Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellowship (2018), Chaz & Robert Ebert Fellowship (2018) + Borscht Fellowship (2018).
She was named one of Miami’s Top 100 Creatives by Miami New Times.
