About This Event
Join us on Thursday, May 21st for the second installment of the spring Street Movies! Undercover screening & performance series at Camden FireWorks’ gallery + artist studio space.
Thursday, May 21st - 1813 Broadway, 6:30-8:30PM
Scribe Video Center and Camden FireWorks present four documentary shorts exploring Environmental Justice! The film program will feature Sundance ‘26 Award Winner, The Boys and The Bees (2025) directed by Arielle Knight, A Tribe Called Camden (2026) directed by Justin DeGuzman, Christian Hayden’s premiere of I Spoke to a Tomato Plant (2026), which follows gardeners in the Mantua and Belmont area of Philadelphia, and Eve’s Garden (2007), which documents the story of a lush urban garden in the middle of Camden’s urban-industrial waterfront, made collaboratively by local residents through Scribe’s Precious Places Community History Project.
Scribe’s Street Movies! series brings together communities across the Greater Philadelphia Region to engage with independent film and foster discussion around the cultural histories of neighborhoods and issues affecting communities. All screenings are free, open to the public, and family-friendly.
Performers:
Spoken Word by Jay Friday (@tjif_artistry)
Musical Performance by Rieko Safiyya (@riekosafiyya)
Event Flow
- 6:30PM - Doors
- 6:40PM - Spoken word by Jay Friday
- 6:50PM - Musical performance by Rieko Safiyya
- 7:00-8:30PM - Screening & Discussion
Film Program:
A Tribe Called Camden (USA / 2026 / 14 MIN ) Dir. Justin DeGuzman
Through conversations on ownership, food quality, healing, growing, branding, and interviewing chefs, this film is what it really looks like when youth try to define themselves in real time. It’s not polished, it’s honest. Every idea, every clip, every voice is part of the process of understanding identity and turning that into something we can stand on. In a cooperative, branding isn’t just logos or content, it’s who we are, what we value, and how we show up for each other while we figure it out.
The Boys and the Bees (USA / 2025 / 18 MIN) Dir. Arielle Knight
On an idyllic farm in rural Georgia, beekeeping parents tenderly share their knowledge of life, love, and nature with their young sons while restoring their homestead.
Eve’s Garden (Waterfront South) (USA / 2007 / 9 MIN) Dir. Heart of Camden
Founded in 2004, Eve’s Garden and Community Greenhouse gives residents the opportunity to have their own lush piece of paradise in the middle of Camden’s urban-industrial waterfront. While deadly environmental pollution disproportionately affects communities of color, urban gardens such as Eve’s have long-demonstrated that industrial blight does not have the final word on a community’s vitality. Precious Places Vol. 3, 2007.
I Spoke to a Tomato Plant (USA / 2026 / 29 MIN) Dir. Christian Hayden
I Spoke to a Tomato Plant follows gardeners in the Mantua and Belmont area of Philadelphia as they share their experience of gardening and building relationships towards healing past traumas. Layered with a soundscape of Philadelphia musicians, ISTAP is an ode to connection, both plant and human, as well as the capacity for change.
PRESENTED BY —
Scribe Video Center: Founded in 1982, Scribe Video Center is a Philadelphia based non profit organization dedicated to using video and audio for artistic expression and tools for social change. We offer workshops, screenings, and community production programs that empower storytellers to share their unique perspectives. Learn more at scribe.org
Camden FireWorks: Camden FireWorks is a community-based exhibition and artist studio space in Camden's Waterfront South district that uses art to create social change. Learn more at camdenfireworks.org/
About This Event
Join us on Thursday, May 21st for the second installment of the spring Street Movies! Undercover screening & performance series at Camden FireWorks’ gallery + artist studio space.
Thursday, May 21st - 1813 Broadway, 6:30-8:30PM
Scribe Video Center and Camden FireWorks present four documentary shorts exploring Environmental Justice! The film program will feature Sundance ‘26 Award Winner, The Boys and The Bees (2025) directed by Arielle Knight, A Tribe Called Camden (2026) directed by Justin DeGuzman, Christian Hayden’s premiere of I Spoke to a Tomato Plant (2026), which follows gardeners in the Mantua and Belmont area of Philadelphia, and Eve’s Garden (2007), which documents the story of a lush urban garden in the middle of Camden’s urban-industrial waterfront, made collaboratively by local residents through Scribe’s Precious Places Community History Project.
Scribe’s Street Movies! series brings together communities across the Greater Philadelphia Region to engage with independent film and foster discussion around the cultural histories of neighborhoods and issues affecting communities. All screenings are free, open to the public, and family-friendly.
Performers:
Spoken Word by Jay Friday (@tjif_artistry)
Musical Performance by Rieko Safiyya (@riekosafiyya)
Event Flow
- 6:30PM - Doors
- 6:40PM - Spoken word by Jay Friday
- 6:50PM - Musical performance by Rieko Safiyya
- 7:00-8:30PM - Screening & Discussion
Film Program:
A Tribe Called Camden (USA / 2026 / 14 MIN ) Dir. Justin DeGuzman
Through conversations on ownership, food quality, healing, growing, branding, and interviewing chefs, this film is what it really looks like when youth try to define themselves in real time. It’s not polished, it’s honest. Every idea, every clip, every voice is part of the process of understanding identity and turning that into something we can stand on. In a cooperative, branding isn’t just logos or content, it’s who we are, what we value, and how we show up for each other while we figure it out.
The Boys and the Bees (USA / 2025 / 18 MIN) Dir. Arielle Knight
On an idyllic farm in rural Georgia, beekeeping parents tenderly share their knowledge of life, love, and nature with their young sons while restoring their homestead.
Eve’s Garden (Waterfront South) (USA / 2007 / 9 MIN) Dir. Heart of Camden
Founded in 2004, Eve’s Garden and Community Greenhouse gives residents the opportunity to have their own lush piece of paradise in the middle of Camden’s urban-industrial waterfront. While deadly environmental pollution disproportionately affects communities of color, urban gardens such as Eve’s have long-demonstrated that industrial blight does not have the final word on a community’s vitality. Precious Places Vol. 3, 2007.
I Spoke to a Tomato Plant (USA / 2026 / 29 MIN) Dir. Christian Hayden
I Spoke to a Tomato Plant follows gardeners in the Mantua and Belmont area of Philadelphia as they share their experience of gardening and building relationships towards healing past traumas. Layered with a soundscape of Philadelphia musicians, ISTAP is an ode to connection, both plant and human, as well as the capacity for change.
PRESENTED BY —
Scribe Video Center: Founded in 1982, Scribe Video Center is a Philadelphia based non profit organization dedicated to using video and audio for artistic expression and tools for social change. We offer workshops, screenings, and community production programs that empower storytellers to share their unique perspectives. Learn more at scribe.org
Camden FireWorks: Camden FireWorks is a community-based exhibition and artist studio space in Camden's Waterfront South district that uses art to create social change. Learn more at camdenfireworks.org/