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SYNOPSIS

Beyond the bloodshed and bullets, in urban America, there are communities where unprecedented courage resides, extraordinary families are tested and improvement is difficult to find…until now.

Envision Films, in collaboration with Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, The Hartford Police Department, The Guardian Angels, Mothers United Against Violence, WDRC’s Brad Davis and a community on the front lines of hope and sacrifice presents: THE SWEETEST LAND – a documentary film about recovery, engagement and politics – where complacency can no longer be an option.

SCREENINGS

THE SWEETEST LAND is screening in select festivals nationwide.   It recently won the Los Angeles Film Awards, received Best Documentary at the Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase and Best Documentary at the Queens World Film Festival.  It received an Excellence in Social Issues Award at Docs Without Borders Film Festival and was recently featured at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center as part of the New Haven Documentary Festival  The Sweetest Land had its Manhattan premiere at the Lower East Side Film Festival  Check back for additional screenings and updates.

We would like to thank The Center’s for Disease Control (CDC), Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard School of Law, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, The Injury Prevention Center and The LEF Foundation for your assistance and engagement throughout our post production period. Sometimes a story can change everything.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS 

SAINT LOUIS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL – 2021 PEDIATRIC TRAUMA SYMPOSIUM

 

Additional festivals coming soon!  LIVES CAN MATTER

 

 

THE SWEETEST LAND

ENGAGEMENT:

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The SWEETEST LAND is produced by ENVISION FILMS

 

The Sweetest Land is supported by:     LEF FOUNDATION            PETER J. KNOX           WISE FAMILY FOUNDATION           CONNECTICUT COMMISSION ON CULTURE AND TOURISIM           COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION            CCSU FOUNDATION          WADSWORTH ATHENEUM

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