Join us at LRMA, Friday, March 1st at 6pm for a film screening of LIBERTAIRE The Play by Elizabeth Indianos!
Admission is by suggested donation of $10.
To RSVP, call LRMA Visitor Services at (727) 712-5762 or online at
https://web.spcollege.edu/survey/36280
About LIBERTAIRE:
The young artist Auguste Bartholdi vows he will one day create the largest sculpture in the world. Struggling under a repressive monarchy blinded by generals, intellectuals suggest giving a gift to America— a statue honoring freedom— daring Auguste to envision Liberty as a woman, rather than a man, as a mother who gives freely without expectation. Apolitical, Auguste declines the challenge—until spike-helmeted Prussian soldiers occupy his beloved home. August is met with disdain and insult in 1871 America and learns that America has many ugly faces: ducks swimming in oil puddles, businessmen obsessed with money and a President who chastises him for losing the Prussian War. Yet, Auguste embraces the statue as his “daughter” and builds her without materials used for war— because he has a hunch that the world needs love and believes that Liberty is the answer. So does the one man who will fight for her—JOE PULITZER. Joe escapes a brutal stepfather by signing up for America’s Civil War. Unable to speak a word of English, Joe is treated like a bum and scammed by con artists until he becomes a newspaper mogul devoted to fighting injustice. When rival press call the French, “disgusting and cheap,” disapproving clergy clamor that Liberty is an “unholy, pagan goddess at the gateway of a Christian America” and Congress and the wealthy refuse to pay a dime for Liberty’s pedestal, Liberty becomes a woman without a home. August accepts that Liberty is not his, “she is a gift” and, in a selfless act of unconditional love, he sends her off to America, into the unknown, where she sits on American shores boxed up in crates for many months in the snow. Outraged, Pulitzer fights back, rallying America with, ” If the rich won’t save us from national disgrace, maybe the poor will!”
Both an award winning stage play (7 nominations Best Play, Director, Actors, Lighting Design both 2017 and 2018) and movie screenplay:
Screenplay Awards
2023 The Art of Brooklyn Award
2023 St. Louis Film Award
2018 TOP FOUR Anchorage International Film Fest
2017 TOP TEN Vancouver International Women in Film Festival
2016 QUARTER FINALIST NICHOLLS FELLOWSHIP (Top 5%. 357 of 6915 scripts)
2016 BEST SCREENPLAY 1st Place 25th Woods Hole Film Festival.
2016 BEST SCREENPLAY 19th Long Island International Film Expo
2016 TOP TEN Toronto 14th Female Eye Film Festival
2013 BEST SCREENPLAY LA Femme International Film Festival
2013 BEST HISTORIC SCREENPLAY Table Read My Screenplay Sundance
2012 WINNER (3rd) Willifest, Williamsburg International Film