PASS THE MIC
Pass the Mic.
Since 2020, Community Justice Project has partnered with Oolite Arts to focus on the cinematic storytelling of some of Miami’s most pressing issues. This collaborative model pairs a filmmaker with real community experts, the people closest to the issues and on the front lines, for community-centered storytelling.
Documentarians Diana Larrea, Terence Price II, and Ronald Baez
pass the mic 2022
For this second iteration of “Pass the Mic: We Will Tell Our Stories,” three filmmakers: Ronald Baez, Diana Larrea, and Terence Price II worked with community experts to create new short documentary films about organizing and community power happening in local collectives and organizations like WeCount!, Miami Workers Center and The Allapattah Collaborative CDC.
Baez's film “Apart < A part" explored gentrification in Allapattah through a local Dominican tailor who reflects on his personal story of building his shop alongside his wife over two decades.
Larrea's film “Monarcas” documents the story of two Guatemalan day laborers in Homestead, FL whose fight against wage theft in their community takes them on a journey of personal transformation.
And in Price's “Rooted like a tree” we get an intimate glimpse of the organizing around the housing crisis in Miami through the Miami Workers Center successful push to get a Tenant Bill of Rights passed in Miami-Dade.
The filmmakers were given four months, a stipend and technical support to complete the commissioned works which screened on July 22 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center.
Watch the Pass the Mic documentaries from 2021
Final Notice by Vanessa Charlot. In the midst of a global pandemic, substandard housing conditions and then an eviction—one Miami woman wins the fight against her landlord and finds her voice to advocate and educate other tenants on fair housing rights.
Beyond the Bars by Fxrbes, glimpsing the injustices at Metro West Detention Center through the eyes of someone with a loved one on the inside.
Village Free(dge) by Alicia Edwards documents how COVID-19 exacerbated food insecurity in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood as two friends tirelessly combat the hunger crisis with community support to keep the Village (Free)dge filled.
