“9500 Liberty” has a 92% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s better than my three previous feature films. Below are some of the DVD box contenders (quotes that we considered putting on the 9500 Liberty DVD box).
“Fascinating! Two Thumbs Up!”
—Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
“PENETRATING! …edited and paced to make county board politics look Shakespearean.”
—Gary Montgomery, The Washington Post
“9500 Liberty’’ is both an inspiration and a warning … about what happens when a community’s civic machinery is hijacked by ideologues and extremists — and what exactly it takes for the silent center to push back.
—Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
“…A unique witness to our times. Part of what makes 9500 Liberty so special is what Byler and Park did with their footage before it was assembled into this feature film. They created a YouTube channel and posted all their interviews and clips online as they were gathered, and they encouraged viewer participation in shaping the material and steering the filmmakers toward unexamined aspects of the subject.”
—Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
“Timely and chilling. There are certain films in certain times that make it exceedingly difficult to shut out the world around you. 9500 Liberty is one of them.”
—Bill Goodykootz, The Arizona Republic
