Better Communities (Short Films)

These are inspirational short films about how to make communities better. Films include: “Marmalade Lane,” a housing development like no other where a collaborative design process produced a new community, with individual homes centered around communal space, shared facilities, and a shared sense of achievement and belonging;  “East Quay,” is a movie about a group of people who get together to build a center for the community in a forgotten corner of a small harbor village; “Ainsworth” is the story of Kam and Hassan who worked with the Arsenal Foundation to resurface a soccer pitch in their neighborhood; “It Takes a Village,” is the story of a church and community fighting against all odds to transform decades of poverty, underdevelopment and disinvestment into abundance, development, and investment; “Time for Life,” is a story from Bogotá, Columbia, about an innovative project that frees up women’s time so they can invest it in their own life projects; “My Child's K-5 School Journey in Detroit: Voices from the Best Classroom Project” details the experiences of four families whose participation in a social network in Detroit informed their school choice decisions.

Countries:

• United States of America
• United Kingdom
• Colombia

Video Titles:

• Marmalade Lane
• East Quay
• Ainsworth
• My Child's K-5 School Journey in Detroit: Voices from the Best Classroom Project
• Time for life
• It Takes A Village