This Time Next Year tracks the resilience of the Long Beach Island, NJ community for one year as they rebuild after 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. Using a mixture of verité, first-person accounts, and the residents’ own footage This Time Next Year is a poetic documentation of a shore community as they battle local politics, cope with personal tragedy, and band together in the face of transition.
This Time Next Year is the inaugural grantee of TFI’s Resilient Communities Project, made possible with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. The film explores not only stories of painful loss and astounding recovery, but the everyday rhythms of a tight knit middle class community by the sea relying on one another to come back from an unprecedented disaster. The film’s campaign will inspire communities around the world to be resilient, like the shore town of Long Beach Island, NJ.
The This Time Next Year campaign seeks to use the film as an educational tool to enable and empower communities and neighborhoods to organize grassroots disaster preparedness and response plans. The film team will organize key tastemaker screenings, coordinate a national screening and conversation tour, work with local and national nonprofits and NGOs to develop campaign initiatives that support the campaign mission, and distribute the film and curriculum to schools across the country.
The goal is to use This Time Next Year to help make people, communities and systems better prepared to withstand natural catastrophic events, bounce back quickly and emerge stronger from these shocks and stresses. In short, we want the film to inspire cities and people to be resilient. Click here to get involved.
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