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The Garden
The Garden
	Promotional film poster
Directed by	Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Written by	Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Cinematography	Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Edited by	Alex Blatt; Tyson FitzGerald; Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Music by	Doug DeAngelis; Gabriel Tenorio
Production; company	Black Valley Films
Distributed by	Oscilloscope Laboratories
Release date	June 18, 2008;
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English / Spanish

The Garden is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy. It tells the story of the now demolished South Central Farm; a community garden and urban farm located in Los Angeles, California. The Garden details the plight of the South Central Farmers, a mostly Latin community of farmers who organized and worked on the farm. After a suspected back room deal, the land upon which the farm operated was sold from the city back to the original owner, Ralph Horowitz. He then decided he did not want to allow the farmers to use it anymore. Despite efforts to keep their farm, the South Central Farmers were evicted and their garden was bulldozed. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on 22 January 2008.

The Garden includes appearances by Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, and Antonio Villaraigosa.

Reception edit

Critical response edit

The Garden has an approval rating of 79% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews, and an average rating of 6.95/10.^[1]

Awards edit

The Garden was nominated for Best Documentary Feature in the 81st Academy Awards.^[2]

The International Documentary Association nominated it for the Pare Lorentz Award.

It won the Grand Jury Award from the 2008 Silverdocs Documentary Festival.

References edit

^ "The Garden". Rotten Tomatoes. 24 April 2009.
^ "The 81st Academy Awards (2009) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2011.