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A Documentary Film
by Elaine Velazquez & Barbara Bernstein

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GAINING GROUND is a documentary about growing food, empowering communities and changing lives. The film interweaves three stories: activists living in the shadow of the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, California, struggle to transform their violent inner-city food desert by creating vibrant organic gardens, jobs and leadership training for local youth; a family on the verge of losing their dairy farm in rural Oregon, finds a new direction growing produce for their local community; and the determined wife of the largest grass seed farmer in the Willamette Valley, convinces her husband to grow organic grains. GAINING GROUND reveals the tenacity and courage of these diverse urban and rural farmers, committed to serving and empowering their communities. More. . .

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SCREENINGS

UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND
Rausch Auditorium
Tacoma, Washington  2019

NORTH OLYMPIC PENINSULA FARMING FILM FEST
Port Hadlock, Washington   2018

2017 FOOD & FARM FILM FEST
ROXIE THEATER
San Francisco, CA

WORKERS UNITE FILM FESTIVAL
CINEMA VILLAGE
New York, NY

CLARK UNIVERSITY
121 Sackler Hall
Worcester, Massachusetts  2017

NORTHWEST FILM CENTER
Northwest Tracking Series
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM

Portland, OR    2017

SALEM PROGRESSIVE FILM SERIES
GRAND THEATER

Salem, OR   2017

FIFTH AVENUE CINEMA
Portland, OR   2017

EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY
La Grande, OR   2017

VANCOUVER COMMUNITY LIBRARY
Vancouver, WA   2017

CASCADE PARK COMMUNITY LIBRARY
Vancouver, WA   2107

HOLLYWOOD THEATER
Portland, OR   2016

SKYLIGHT THEATER
Hood River, OR
   2016

BIJOU ART THEATER
Eugene, OR   2016  

COLUMBIAN THEATER
Astoria, OR   2016

VARSITY THEATER
Ashland, OR   2016

SANDY PUBLIC LIBRARY
Sandy, OR   2016

CISCFF-Wreath-2016 small

SLO Film Fest Laurels 2016

CINEMA 21
Portland, Oregon 2015

CORVALLIS ECO FILM FESTIVAL   2015

 

WE HAVE COLLABORATED WITH THE FOLLOWING COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS:

KBOO-FM
Multnomah County Office of Sustainability
Oregon Food Bank
Columbia Riverkeeper
Food Front
Food & Water Watch
Friends of Family Farmers
Village Gardens
Rethinking Schools
Food for Lane County
University of Oregon Food Studies Program
North Coast Food Web
Astoria Food Co-op
CREATE
Coast Community Radio, Astoria
CCA Regional Food Bank
Rockford Grange, Hood River
Gorge Grown Food Network
Andrew’s Pizza
Our Family Farm Coalition
Rogue Valley Food System Network
Thrive
Oregonians for Safe Farms and Families
GMO Free Josephine County
Rogue Valley Farm to School.


 MEDIA APPEARANCES
Read an interview with GAINING GROUND director Elaine Velazquez and producer Barbara  Bernstein in Civil Eats.
 
CLICK to Hear an interview with GAINING GROUND filmmakers Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein on The Jefferson Exchange, Jefferson Public Radio, October 25, 2016
 
CLICK to Hear an interview with GAINING GROUND filmmakers Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein on Healthwatch, KBOO-FM September 21, 2015
 
CLICK  to Watch an interview with GAINING GROUND filmmakers Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein on KPTV, Channel 12 September 29, 2015


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