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USA, 2008, 80min Directed by SCOTT HAMILTON KENNEDY Florida Premiere |
In this gripping Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, bullies and bulldozers face off with family farmers in an unlikely battleground--a garden. One of the silver-green linings of the 1992 Los Angeles riots was the emergence of the South Central farmers. Dozens of city-dwelling Latino gardeners worked an abandoned fourteen acres of blighted land to create the nation's largest urban farm. But when vacated land becomes valuable land, promises made in 1992 started to crumble. More than sustenance of food was threatened by the would-be commercial developers of this property. Over time, the garden has created a sense of place--a place where the values of justice, hard work, and discipline are shared from generation to generation. This sense of place fuels the farmers to fight City Hall and other vested interests. Internecine and intra-racial fights also erupt as the power of money trumps the power of solidarity and justice. Will might make right? Will the intervention by famous Hollywood activists make a difference? Skillfully, filmmaker Scott Hamilton (OT: Our Town) puts us in the center of a series of political, legal, and physical battles that will jump-start your heart and activate your sense of moral and legal justice.Preceded by
PEOPLE LIKE US
USA, 2008, 8.5 Min
Directed by
BRETT SMITH
World Premiere
Director expected to be in attendance.
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What price food? What happens when someone pays for sharing food with jail time? The city of Orlando's Ordinance 18A made it illegal for any one individual or group to feed more than 25 homeless people at a time on any regular basis in the downtown area. . Eric Montanez of Food Not Bombs defied this law and became the first person in the state to be arrested for giving away food. In this sharp, crisp overview of people and philosophies at odds with one another, it's not just the swans and ducks that are fighting at Lake Eola Park over food.
