Healing Gardens Of New York: Planting seeds, changing lives

The Healing Gardens Of New York Planting seeds, changing lives a documentary work-in-progress by award-winning writer/director Alexandra Isles IFP MARKET SCREENING: Wednesday, September 21,2005, 10:30 am Theatre #4 Angelika Film Centre Houston & Mercer... More

The Healing Gardens Of New York Planting seeds, changing lives a documentary work-in-progress by award-winning writer/director Alexandra Isles IFP MARKET SCREENING: Wednesday, September 21,2005, 10:30 am Theatre #4 Angelika Film Centre Houston & Mercer Streets The Healing Gardens of New York is the story of lives and communities that have been transformed by gardens created in the response to crime, neglect, poverty and recidivism. The film features gardens ranging from a small asphalt triangle in Times Square to a spacious field on Rikers Island (the city’s largest prison). In a city dominated by steel, glass, jackhammers and cranes, the importance of green spaces as a source of stability and emotional well-being is too often overlooked. The film makes it clear — New York’s best gardens reach out. The Healing Gardens of New York captures the one universal truth all community gardens share —and that is the power to make life better for those who toil in them. Zazel Loven Senior E Less