There’s more than one way to bring attention to the issue of generational displacement and gentrification. Filmmaker Monica Sorelle’s approach is to highlight the issues from behind the camera.
In her directorial debut, Mountains, the Miami-born creative gives the world a beautifully-shot film about a construction worker tasked with demolishing homes in his own Miami neighborhood, the vibrant Haitian-American enclave of Little Haiti. The nuanced story, which won a Special Jury Mention at the Tribeca Film Festival, uses one family to illustrate what happens to a minoritized community that is being pushed out of their 10-feet-above sea level, yet close to the ocean homes in a beach-front city that is looking to build on hurricane-safer land.
