The Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) is pleased to co-sponsor the Film Screening of Mountains, the second program in the 2026–2027 iWitness Lunch Break Series, presented by the FIU Public Humanities Lab.

Join us for a screening of the movie Mountains by Monica Sorelle and Robert Colom-Vargas. Filmed in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, the celebration of Haitian cultural heritage and the intergenerational tensions of an immigrant household are set against the backdrop of a neighborhood being rapidly transformed by gentrification. After the screening, there will be a Q & A with filmmakers Monica Sorelle and Robert Colom-Vargas (FIU Class of ‘13).

About iWitness

The Global Borderless Caribbean is at the heart of iWitness, a dynamic community initiative developed in collaboration with FIU's Public Humanities Lab. Through visual storytelling, civic dialogue, and public engagement, iWitness examines issues affecting communities across Latin America, the Caribbean, and their global diasporas.

Light dinner will be served.

5:30-6:00: Dinner

6:00-7:30: Film Screening

7:30-8:30: Q & A

This event will take place at SIPA II Room 102, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199.

Monica Sorelle is a Haitian-American filmmaker and artist born and based in Miami. Her work explores alienation and displacement, and preserves cultural traditions within Miami and the Caribbean with a focus on the African and Latin diasporas that reside there.

Robert Colom-Vargas is a filmmaker, film curator, and social artist from Miami. Through investigations of spatial and narrative belonging, his work explores the cultural synapses between the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean as they materialize across the diasporic space and inform the cultural inheritance of America's immigrant populations.

Sponsored by The Green Family Foundation

Partners: FIU African and African Diaspora Studies, FIU Global Sociocultural Studies, Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, Humanities Edge, iWitness, Kimberly Green Latin America and Caribbean Center.