FILM TITLE: Dirt
FORMAT: VHS
PRODUCER: David Evans
CONTACT: Walkabout Releasing
240 East 39th St, #12E
New York, NY 10019
ABSTRACT: DIRT depicts a year in the life of the gardens created by local
people of New York City's Lower East Side on blocks once dominated by drugs,
AIDS, and crime. The film shows how many of the gardens are now being lost to
re-development. It features a cast of truly memorable characters, including
Adam Purple, a garden pioneer and guru of the Purple People of the 1960s;
Pablo,
a squatter who faithfully tended his garden until the day of eviction; and
Normand Vallee, a garden founder who is dying of AIDS. One critic wrote that
the
film "reveals these rare urban oases while exploring the lives of people
existing on the edge of sanity, homelessness and death. DIRT chronicles the
bizarre and the beautiful, uniting them all beneath the banner of creation."
FILM TITLE: City Farmers-Survival in the Urban Landscape
FORMAT: VHS & DVD
PRODUCER: Meryl Joseph
CONTACT: Southhawk Studios
c/o MH Joseph
58 River Street
Gt. Barrington, MA 01230
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ABSTRACT: City Farmers takes a deep and startling look at the community
gardening movement in New York where determined inner-city residents overcome
the threat of drug wars, murder, and decay to create gardens that are
compelling metaphors of survival.
FILM TITLE: More Than Flowers
FORMAT: VHS
PRODUCER: Laura Beer
CONTACT: www.cinemaguild.com
ABSTRACT: This video tells the story of community gardens in New York
City, which flourished during the Seventies when residents of deteriorating
neighborhoods removed garbage from abandoned lots, obtained temporary leases
from
the city, and planted gardens. As the gardens developed through volunteer
community effort, they became valued sites for local families and their
children to
socialize, relax, and enjoy nature. In the mid-Nineties, however, the city
administration began selling these lots to developers, and bulldozing community
gardens, which destroyed both the gardens and the community organizations they
involved. The video features interviews with community gardeners throughout
New York City and archival footage from the last two decades of the growth and
ongoing destruction of the community gardens movement.
FILM TITLE: Green Guerillas
FORMAT: DVD
PRODUCER: SYLVAINE DAMPIERRE
CONTACT: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ABSTRACT: A new resistance in the underprivileged districts of New York:
to deal with Community park, in addition to gardening, it is to make meetings,
to educate, transmit heat and humanity.
FILM TITLE: The Healing Gardens of New York
FORMAT: DVD
PRODUCER: Alexandra Isles
CONTACT: www.cinemaguild.com
ABSTRACT: Beautiful and inspiring, The Healing Gardens of New York tells
the stories of the lives and communities transformed by gardens and green
spaces created in response to crime, neglect, poverty and urban decay. The
Healing
Gardens of New York is a wonderful film that illustrates the significance of
gardens and green spaces in the face of ever growing urbanization and
development. In cities dominated by glass and concrete, it takes an in depth
look at
how gardens can be a platform for social change and an opportunity to develop
new skills and transform lives.
FILM TITLE: A Lot in Common
FORMAT: DVD
PRODUCER: Rick Bacigalupi
CONTACT: Bullfrog Films
ABSTRACT: Meet the neighbors: Grandpa Roosevelt and his grandson, Joan
the single mom, Ruthe the psychic, and Amy the metal sculptor. They all have "A
Lot in Common" when together they turn a vacant lot in Berkeley, CA into a
blooming community garden full of lush native California vegetation,
eco-friendly
technology demonstrations, and outdoor artwork by local artists. They clash
over political ideals, runaway pets and public art, yet in the end, they grow a
community of neighbors.
FILM TITLE: The Vacant Lot
FORMAT: VHS
PRODUCER: Judith Merritt
CONTACT: The National Film Board
PO Box 6100
St. Centre-Ville
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3H5
ABSTRACT: The charming story of how a group of 176 senior citizens
managed to transform a useless vacant lot in Montreal into a garden of delights
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vegetables, flowers, and parties. It has completely changed their attitude
about
inactivity and retirement.
FILM TITLE: Green Streets
FORMAT: VHS
PRODUCER: Maria De Luca
CONTACT: De Luca Films
205 W. 95th Street
New York, NY 10025
ABSTRACT: If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the
Bronx? Maria De Luca's "Green Streets" charts the spontaneous emergence of
community gardens in New York City and how they've helped to nourish
neighborhood pride, racial tolerance and a budding sense of hope for hundreds
of
enthusiastic gardeners in the urban jungle.
FILM TITLE: Urban Gardens: Fighting For Life & Beauty
FORMAT: VHS
PRODUCER: Jay Sokolovsky
CONTACT: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ABSTRACT: An academic review of the history and current use of community
gardens
in New York City and other urban centers.
FILM TITLE: Play For Keeps: The Struggle to Save NYC Community Gardens
FORMAT: VHS
PRODUCER:
CONTACT: Paper Tiger Television
ABSTRACT: Community gardens are an endangered species in NYC. Esperanza
(Hope), a 23-year old Lower East Side garden, was bulldozed by the Giuliani
administration in January to make way for affordable housing. Playing for Keeps
asks the question: affordable to whom and exposes the city’s attempts to
gentrify New York’s poorest neighborhoods and destroy thriving communities.
Interviews with Loisaida’s residents and gardeners, as well as More Gardens!
activists, illustrate the need for direct action and civil disobedience to
defend the
last of this city’s
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