White Gold

Lithium, Power, and the Andes

By Samuel George
22min2026
Latin American LithiumCritical MineralsMining and Human RightsIndigenous Communities

In Bolivia and Chile, at the lithium-rich heart of Latin America, a global mining boom is accelerating as demand for electric vehicle batteries fuels a scramble for critical minerals—raising urgent questions about power, profit, Indigenous lands, and the true cost of clean energy.

Liberty City

Segregation, memory, and community renewal in Miami’s Liberty City. Far removed from the tony beaches of Miami’s south coast, Liberty City was created in the 1930s as a segregated neighborhood for Miami’s African American residents. Remnants of the segregation wall still stand today, running along 12th Avenue as a physical marker of that history. This documentary centers on community-led efforts to rebuild civic life in inner-city Miami. It follows a group of local teenagers working to create a public monument on the segregation wall—an attempt to reclaim a history whose meaning had been forgotten by many. The film also embeds with the Circle of Brotherhood, a group of men confronting violence, disinvestment, and inequality from within the neighborhood, and with a Miami police officer born and raised in Liberty City, now patrolling the same streets while grappling with his role as an African American officer in his own community.

Liberty City