This Was Forever (2008)
Prizewinning film by Mark Aitkin and young filmmakers from polkadotsonraindrops
Shown at Mora Gora Festival (Serbia), it is part the Films from the River Lee series – filmed over a year until the allotments were demolished in 2007. Funded by First Light.
This Was Forever won the Best Film made by over 13 yrs at the First Light Awards 2009.
Allotments vs Olympics
Ali Qasim’s Community Channel documentary of the last months of the original Manor Gardens, first broadcast November 2007
Words from the Plots
More from Manor Gardens
Alfresco Cookery
BBC1 InsideOut Documentary (originally broadcast 30 Oct 2006)