The Sound of Liberty

Miami, 2022. Every Saturday morning, for over a year, a group of kids and teenagers meet to learn and to play music, to interact among each other, discovering their talents and expressing their dreams for the future.
Their teacher is an African-American trumpeter, Jhefte Pierre, who organized his music class in the heart of Liberty City, a neighborhood hit by an epidemic of gun violence in the last decades. The music project represents a concrete opportunity for a generation of young minds who lack reasons to believe, but don't lack talent and vision.
The short film will document the hard work that these kids are doing to learn and master the instrument they chose, but also the difficulties that some of them experience in their personal life, one of them being the lack of transportation in the neighborhood that represents a real challenge just to get to the location of the music class. The progress of the learning process will be alternated with an interview with Jhefte Pierre, their teacher, who will explain how the idea of this project was born, its goals and its dynamics. Jhefte will also take us to Liberty City, the neighborhood where he grew up as a kid, where he first encountered music and where he saw first-hand many of his friends succumb to crime, drugs, gun violence. While the music class progresses, Jhefte and the kids will create a music play that they'll perform at a venue in Liberty City, in front of their parents, friends and community leaders, to show everyone what they've learned over the past year.
A small, but significant act of emancipation, courage and wisdom in a community scourged by poverty, crime, and death, to show everyone that change is not only possible, but real. Because dreams begin with dreamers.