The people involved have become emotionally connected and feel rooted in their city once again. There are several agricultural programs which the film explores that have cropped up to solve a specific issue. They literally transform vacant lots into active producing gardens that provide for their local communities. “Urban Roots tells the compelling story of several native inhabitants of Detroit as they get involved in the urban farming movement. Official Selection Regent Park Film Festival Official Selection Deconstructing Dinner Film Festival
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Official Selection Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts Film Series Official Selection Utah Film Center Festival Official Selection Marda Loop Justice Film Festival Official Selection Princeton Film Festival Official Selection World Community Film Festival Official Selection Food for Thought Film Series Official Selection One World Film Festival Official Selection San Francisco Green Film Festival Official Selection Imagesante Film Festival
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Official Selection Planet in Focus Film Festival Official Selection Eco Focus Film Festival Official Selection Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival Official Selection Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) World Premier Shepard Fairey designed "Urban Roots" Print which promoted farm programs in schools during and after the film's release.
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It took men like Henry Ford, William Durant, and Lee Iacocca to build this city, but it’s taken a bunch of strong willed self-taught urban farmers to save it. This growing movement of urban farmers is changing the way people think about food-and life in the “D”. Urban Roots is a story that reveals that the best in us can prevail in the most difficult of times and in the most difficult of places, new hope emerges. The people of Detroit have taken on the enormous task of changing this for themselves, and to understand their story is to understand how we can change it for us all. Urban Roots shows dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally-grown, sustainably farmed food in a city where people – as in much of the county – have found themselves cut off from real food and limited to the lifeless offerings of fast food chains, mini-marts, and grocery stores stocked with processed food from thousands of miles away. Dedicated citizens have started an urban environmental movement that is transforming not just a city after its collapse, but also America at the end of its industrial age. With the most vacant lots in the country, citizens are reclaiming their spirits by growing food. But now, against all odds, in the empty lots, in the old factory yards, and the sad, sagging blocks of company housing, seeds of change are taking root.
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Detroit, once an industrial powerhouse, is a city devastated by the loss of half its population due to the collapse of manufacturing. URBAN ROOTS is a documentary that tells the story of the spontaneous emergence of urban farming in the city of Detroit.