The Garden - Directed By Scott Hamilton Kennedy

THE GARDEN

The Garden ' is a classic documentary film about the captivating encounter that took place in Los Angeles . It won the jury prize in June 2008 at the Silverdocs documentary festival in Washington , D .C . It was short listed for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was nominated for the Pare Lorentz prize at the IDA Awards in December 2008

The documentary was produced and directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy , who burst into limelight as a result of his previous documentary Our Town (Compton Students . Characters in The

Garden ' include Farm Coordinators Rufina Juarez and Tezozomoc as well as those who cultivated its soil such as Josefina Medina and Eddie Luvianos Rumbos (South Central Farmers

Kennedy was also involved in the sound , editing and cinematography of the documentary

It is based on the ferocious conflict over a fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda streets also known as the South Central Farm

The Oscar nominated documentary lets us into the events that took place in South Central Farm , the largest community garden in the U .S , which had been in existence since 1992 . Various crops , such as bananas , beans fresh lettuce , sweet papayas , and tomatoes were grown on the farmland which was once a site for refuse dump . The 372 Latino families that worked on the land lived in a serene environment , till they were ed to evacuate the place in December 2003 (South Central Farmers .What led to this scenario was that the city of Los...