REEL PROGRESS Interviews: The Garden - Oscar Nominee for Doc
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- http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/reelprogress/ CAP's Reel Progress, the progressive film series, interviews the filmmakers behind The Garden, the Academy Award nominated documentary. FILM SYNOPISIS: The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers: Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less ...
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