Welcome to Pine Lake Featured on Antigravity Magazine Top Picks

Welcome to Pine Lake was featured as one of the AG picks for the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival by Antigravity Magazine. Check out the excerpt below and view the full story on Antigravity Magazine. Here’s what they had to say:

Welcome to Pine Lake

Elisa Gambino and Neal Broffman‘s Welcome to Pine Lake is a thoughtful, funny, and poignant portrait of a small town in the Deep South—Pine Lake, Georgia, population 747. Women hold all the major leadership roles in Pine Lake. The mayor, the chief of police, and the entire city council are all women. With a public beach, a police force, and a community of residents that celebrates art and diversity, Pine Lake seems like a paradise. That is until you begin to zoom out and find the history of segregation that allows Pine Lake to exist. Pine Lake is largely white, and the towns surrounding Pine Lake are largely Black. While the surrounding Black communities suffer from over-policing and a lack of resources, Pine Lake is a bubble of art, parades, and whiteness. Welcome To Pine Lake explores the performativity of liberal politics and allyship, and how any “paradise” comes at a cost—a cost usually paid by Black and brown communities. (Virtual screening starting November 14) —Sarah Durn