The Garden. From the ashes of the L.A. riots, the South Central Farmers have nurtured the nation’s largest urban farm. Since 1992, they have created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.
The Garden is the unflinching look at the struggle between urban farmers and the City of Los Angeles and a powerful developer who wants to evict them and build warehouses.
Mostly immigrants from Latin American countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand, “Where
is our ‘Justice for all’?”
If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?
The Garden has the pulse of verité with the narrative pull of fiction, telling the story of the country’s largest urban farm, backroom deals, land developers, green politics, money, poverty, power, and racial discord. The film explores and exposes the fault lines in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.
Please join us for a very special screening of The Garden, winner of the Sterling award for best U.S. feature at Silverdocs, at the Democratic National Convention as part of the SeaChange Ideas Forum at the Starz Green Room.
Thank you for your support.
"We award this film for its tenacity in storytelling in the face of injustice, and the filmmaker's singular vision in bringing a gripping, dramatic, and important story to the public eye. THE GARDEN has raw emotion, visceral energy, and nail-biting twists and turns. It unravels a complex and layered tale of the destruction of America's largest urban farm that must not be forgotten."
The Silverdocs Sterling US Feature Jury
The Garden
A Film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
At the SeaChange Ideas Forum at the Starz Green Room
Denver, Colorado
2-4pm Wednesday 8/27/08
***Q/A with filmmaker, Daryl Hannah and other members of the film***
To attend, please
1. register at: http://www.seachangecom.com/
2. rsvp to scott with your full name (for security check in) at: stressbox@mindspring.com
View the trailer: http://www.thegardenmovie.com/trailer
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