Nuestra Herencia Legacy Film Project

NUESTRA HERENCIA LEGACY FILM PROJECT

By Erin Babbin

2022 Chicago Digital Media Production Fund Grantee

This community preservation project highlights seniors of Pilsen who garden at El Paseo Community Garden. The documentary series captures their immigration stories and how gardening connects them to home, family, and healing. WATCH THE TRAILER

Website: www.pilsenstories.com/

Instagram: @ontherealfilm

Key Creatives:

Erin Babbin: Director / Editor / Producer

Yaritza Guillen , Paula Acevedo, and Tamara Becerra Valdez: Producers

Michael Sullivan: Cinematographer / Post-Production

Colin Lucero-Dixon: Assistant Editor

Project News:

WGN News — There's a new film making the rounds - Nuestra Herencia

WBEZ Chicago — The elders of a Pilsen community garden are honored in new documentary

Chicago Onscreen Presented by Chicago Park District — 2022 Filmmaker Spotlight