Great news! The Garden (the movie about the South Central LA community garden) has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category! Let the story be told and heard!! Be sure to watch the trailer. (BTW, you can add this to your Netflix queue, but the release date on DVD is unknown.)
The story of the struggle for the fourteen-acre community garden on the corner of 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is now an Oscar nominated documentary. Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, “The Garden,” traces the fate of the South Central Garden when bulldozers razed the farming plots of immigrant families as the land was upheld by the city to be the property of developer Ralph Horowitz. The back story of how the community garden came to such an end is explored through questions of city politics, real estate development and community struggle. Protagonists highlighted in “The Garden,” include South Central Farm organizers Tezozomoc and Rufina Juarez as well as those who tilled its soil such as Eddie Luvianos Rumbos and Josefina Medina. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called the film, “an excellent documentary!” whose “lessons about the levers of power and politics are relevant everywhere.”
"The Garden" takes us behind the scenes into one of the most incendiary L.A. situations of recent times. That would be the fierce battle over a 14-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda streets known as the South Central Farm, a dispute that turned so bitter and protracted it is still going on.
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