We at the Hamilton Film Group are very excited about this Kickstarter program, uniting a community in Northeast Baltimore through gardening. Hamilton Crop Circle is seeking seed money to help their various projects grow…

Local Composting Program:
Hamilton Crop Circle works with area restaurants (like Chameleon Café, Clementine’s, Hamilton Tavern, etc.) to collect compostable materials at no charge, reducing waste, while creating natural fertilizer.

Roof Top Gardening:
HCC is developing a system of rooftop gardening projects in the industrial and mercantile sectors throughout Baltimore City to produce locally-grown food.

Feeding the hungry:
Recognizing the need to provide fresh food to Baltimore’s needy, HCC has forged a partnership between Our Daily Bread and the Baltimore Farmers Market to donate fresh foods weekly.

Educational Growth:
By developing microfarms at area schools, HCC is educating young people about where food comes from and how to grow it. The gardens are ideally watered by the school’s rooftop cistern. And the vegetables find their way to the cafeteria and the science room.

Some money will be allocated to developing worm composting systems; other funds will be allocated to building greenhouses for year-round produce production. All projects will become sustainable economic engines…

BUT help is needed! Please consider backing HCC! We did!

Thursday, December 17th, HAMILTON will screen on 16mm at the Philadelphia International House. For over thirty years, International House has been the leading venue in Philadelphia for repertory film programming, independent premieres and cutting edge, avant-garde cinema from around the world. The screening is free and begins at 7PM. A Q&A with director Matt Porterfield will follow.

“A film is the relation between two stories. The first one is the film’s plot: the succession of narrative facts more or less dramatic and literary. The second one is the film’s process: the experiences woven between the filmmaker and the people he films, or those with whom he films. Learning to watch film requires recognition of the signs of that other story, which is constituted by the experience rising from the work: more secret and more private, and always more tense and contradictory.”

– Gonzalo de Lucas, re: Pedro Costa