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The Garden Garrison Keillor: The Man on the
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Radio in the Red Shoes
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Director/Producer: Peter Rosen a73 Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Susan Lacy a73
Director/Cinematographer: Scott Hamilton Kennedy a73 Executive Producers: Julie Bergman
Screenwriter: Sara Lukinson a73 Cinematographer: Joel Shapiro a73 Editor: Bob Jorissen a73
Sender, Stuart Sender a73 Producers: Dominque Derrenger, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Vivianne
Music/Composer: Guys All Star Shoe Band a73 Principal Cast: Joe Ely, Garrison Keillor, Tim
Nacif a73 Editors: Alex Blatt, Tyson Fitzgerald, Scott Hamilton Kennedy a73 Music/Composers:
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Doug DeAngelis, Gabriel Tenorio a73 Principal Cast: Darryl Hannah, Rufina Juarez, Jan Perry,
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thegardenmovie.com
America’s foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison
Keillor, takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across
A fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in
the country in his traveling radio show, spinning his stories into
South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United
American gold. Travel with Keillor to small towns and big,
States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A.
going behind-the-scenes of America’s most popular radio show,
riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a
NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion, for an intimate and
miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods.
spontaneous look at the private man in the public spotlight.
Growing their own food. Feeding their 347 families. Creating a
community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their oasis. Over one year of filming has resulted in an unusual portrait that
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cannot be defined by the standard terms of chronological
Mostly immigrants from countries where they feared to speak
biography—the subject himself is an enigma, and the fictional
out, they organize, fight back, and demand answers: Why was
world he has created has become a real place in America. The
the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-
free-form film follows the beloved humorist and storyteller as
market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door
he mingles fact and fiction to create one of America’s favorite
session of the LA City Council? The Garden tells the story of
places, Lake Wobegon. Featuring music by Jerry Douglas.
backroom deals, developers, green politics, money, poverty,
power, and racial discord. Nominated for a 2009 Academy Sponsors: JPR and SOPTV
Award for Best feature-length Documentary. [language, subtitles]
Peter Rosen
Sponsor: Rogue Creamery
Director’s Statement
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Because Keillor is a storyteller, with very
Director’s Statement blurred lines between what is real and
what isn’t, the challenge was to make a
There are so many reasons I was inspired to
biography that wasn’t really a biography, a
pick up my camera and follow this story.
sort of pseudo biography, where after a while it didn’t really
The first time I stepped onto the garden the
matter what was real and what was not real, because there was
city seemed to vanish. Surrounded by
a deeper level of things going on in his life that we were
varieties of fruits, vegetables and herbs, the smell, the air was
witnessing, or imagining.
different immediately. And the people: warm, humble,
generous in spirit and with the bounty of their plots. But there Maybe there’s a direction to go in when you think about
was another characteristic to the farmers that is essential to this documentaries that breaks some new ground, where we don’t
story: while most had never done anything political before, they have to use the same old boring story telling techniques, where
found a way to get organized, ask questions, do research, and you can not do interviews, and let visuals, music, and the
not give up without a fair assesment of what happened here. subject himself tell the story. It’s almost a mandate that we find
new ways to put sequences together, to illustrate and describe
At a moment when economic insecurity abounds—as rising
emotions, and to tell the story.
food prices, energy and environmental crisis confront us at
seemingly every turn—The Garden tells an essential story and
Selected Filmography: First Person Singular: I. M. Pei, Here to Make Music: The Eighth
serves as a powerful symbol of the larger world around us.
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Who Gets to Call it Art?
Filmography: OT: our town (2003 AIFF)
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