- 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.—Anonymous
- Eighteen miles long and little more than a half-mile deep at its widest point, Long Beach Island is a sleepy, middle-class summer community sitting just off the coast of New Jersey and home to about 20,000 year-round residents. A popular vacation destination, the population swells to over 100,000 during the all-important summer months, as families and tourists from across the country descend onto the island, and the daily lives of the LBI locals during the other months of the year are dependent on these summer travelers. In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy decimated the northeast coast of the United States, leaving hundreds of homes and businesses in ruins and causing an estimated billion dollars in damage to LBI. This Time Next Year follows the residents of Long Beach Island for one year after Sandy as they rebuild, depicting the daily struggles of an uprooted community alongside their preparation for the rapidly approaching summer season. The ocean that was once their livelihood now represents their extreme fragility, and this anxiety pervades even the most resilient island residents as they attempt to return to normal life. Unfolding alongside small-town staples of lazy summer days spent at the beach, the high school prom and the homecoming football game, and the local barbecues and ice cream parlors, the prospect of another hurricane looms large in the minds of the LBI residents, wondering just what next year will bring. 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.—Anonymous
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