The Perfect Neighbor

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The Perfect Neighbor

Free Member Event—Q&A with The Perfect Neighbor Film Team

Join us for a special screening of two Academy Award nominated documentary from Netflix: Geeta Gandhbir’s feature The Perfect Neighbor and Josh Seftel’s short All the Empty Rooms. Both films will be introduced by All the Empty Rooms filmmaker Josh Seftel and followed by a Q&A with the film team behind The Perfect Neighbor.

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards, The Perfect Neighbor uses police bodycam footage to reveal how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice, and Stand Your Ground laws.

In the moving Academy Award nominated short documentary All the Empty Rooms, a journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.

Free Member Event

"The Perfect Neighbor serves as both an exploration of the law and a powerful tribute to a mother, a woman, and a human life tragically cut short."
Sara Clements, Next Best Picture
"While The Perfect Neighbor is, on the most visceral level, a documentary horror film built with police footage, it also reveals how a violent tragedy can be unwittingly manifested by unchecked grievance and a law that weaponizes white fear more than it guards anyone’s peace."
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

This film is part of the Catching Up: 2025 in Review series.



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