Life or Liberty is a nonprofit multimedia project telling stories of resistance in immigrant communities. Our documentaries highlight the struggle against:
What’s distinctive about the work of Life or Liberty:
Our distribution and outreach includes public television, film festivals, community screenings, and social media campaigns. Our projects make a long-term impact through educational and consumer distribution.
Our projects make a long-term impact through educational and consumer distribution.
Center for Constitutional Rights
CAIR
Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti
Desis Rising Up and Moving
The Tule Lake Committee
Japanese American Action Network
NAKASEC
The Open Society Institute
The National Parks Service
New York State Council on the Arts
The Fledgling Fund
The Puffin Foundation
Private donors – please support
Director Konrad Aderer founded Life or Liberty in the wake of 9/11, during the vast expansion of immigration enforcement that continues today. We began by producing short documentaries on immigrants targeted for detention and deportation, then expanded to feature documentaries and social media videos.
New York City, Fall of 2001: the wreckage of the World Trade Center was still smoldering. The acrid, toxic fumes from its wreckage filled the streets of Lower Manhattan. Despite the fear and anger the attack provoked as an immediate reaction, throughout the city there soon grew a sense of unity, of basic humanity overcoming political or ethnic divides…
