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Content Discovering Home
Jack Mittemeyer
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION AND
JOURNALISM
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM)
DECEMBER 2022
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Acknowledgements
I would first like to thank my parents for giving me the opportunity and encouragement to pursue
my degree. Thank you to Dan Birman for the guidance and constructive criticism throughout the
entire process. I could not have completed my documentary at the quality it is now without his
support. I would also like to thank Community Nature Connection for allowing me to partake in
one of their Transit to Trails programs. Thank you to Bryan Matsumoto for taking the time to
meet multiple times and sharing his knowledge on outdoor access. Finally, I would like to thank
the Arts & Climate Collective for supporting me financially in the creation of my documentary.
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Table of Contents
I. Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………..………....ii
II. Abstract…...………………………………………………………………………………iv
III. Reflection………………………………………………………………………………….1
IV . Bibliography………………...…………………………………………………………….6
V . Documentary Script……………………………………………………………………….7
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Abstract
One's relationship to nature is part of the human experience. My thesis takes a look at people's
ability to access nature in Los Angeles. This work shows that it is currently difficult for many
Los Angeles residents to affordably spend time in nature. However, there are community
organizations working to fix this problem. Their work has helped change people's lives for the
better. My thesis highlights this through a documentary covering these organizations and
individuals.
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Link to Documentary - https://youtu.be/bqpflCTG6s0
Reflection
“Discovering Home” is a documentary that covers how in Los Angeles it is often difficult
to access natural spaces and highlights the importance of improving that access. Moving to Los
Angeles I realized how difficult and time consuming it was to get to where I wanted to go
without a car. Even with a car there is still the cost of gas and time spent waiting in traffic. Even
though I am someone who loves to spend time outdoors and going on hikes I began going less
often because of these problems. This made me wonder if there are any people or organizations
working to fix this problem, and sure enough there are.
Upon doing research for my documentary I found that low-income neighborhoods in the
U.S. have 70% less park space than high-income neighborhoods
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. This struck me because
spending time outdoors provides so many benefits. Studies indicate that spending time outdoors
decreases levels of depression. One study concluded that, “Nature offers huge potential as an
easily accessible and cost-effective approach to illness prevention.”
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Furthermore, the study
suggests a 90-minute nature walk has been shown to reduce negative thoughts. This study found
that those who took nature walks, “Reported lower levels of rumination and showed reduced
neural activity in an area of the brain linked to risk for mental illness compared with those who
walked through an urban environment.”
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Considering the disparities of access and the potential
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Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation | PNAS
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Doses of Nearby Nature Simultaneously Associated with Multiple Health Benefits | HTML
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https://www.tpl.org/city/los-angeles-california
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to generate a healthier community, I felt that this is an environmental injustice that needed to be
covered.
I decided to tell this story as a documentary, first off, because I find more enjoyment
using a camera and telling a visual story as opposed to a written one. Also, I believed that this
particular story would benefit from the documentary format because it would allow me to show
the experience of being in nature and to show the stark differences between the city and
wilderness. Being in the city there is a lot of noise, traffic, and littered streets. Nature on the
other hand is still, calm, and filled with wildlife. I wanted to highlight these differences so people
could get a sense at how nature has the potential to benefit one's mental health. I also felt that
being able to observe people experiencing nature would help drive home the importance of
improving accessibility. Based on my research I hoped to see a group of about 15 people get to
experience a piece of nature close to home that they had never been to.
To start the process of creating my documentary I researched and contacted many
organizations and individuals in Los Angeles working to improve outdoor access. Throughout
this research I was hoping to find individuals with compelling stories about accessing nature and
progress being made by organizations working to improve access. These two things were key to
telling this story. It took some persistence, but I was able to connect with Community Nature
Connection and Nature For All, which are non-profit organizations working to connect people to
nature. In talking with the organizations, their goals for helping communities is to provide access
to the outdoors to marginalized communities and to provide education about nature to create the
next generation of environmental protectors. They spread the word about their programs through
social media, fliers in parks, and reaching out to schools and other organizations in their target
communities. Community Nature Connection is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that one of their
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programs is hosting bus trips from underprivileged communities to various wilderness areas. I
thought that highlighting one of these trips would be an effective way to tell my story. My vision
was to follow the trip from start to finish and get to know the attendees along the way while
highlighting the importance of these trips through expert interviews. However, this did not go
exactly as planned. First, my intention was to go on one of their trips over winter break in
December, 2021, but due to an increase in COVID-19 cases the trips were canceled. This left me
scrambling to figure out other options. As I was reaching out to other organizations, Community
Nature Connection informed me that they planned to start their bus program again at the end of
February 2022. With this vision of my documentary still in view I decided it would be best to
wait and film the trip.
Unfortunately, the trip I attended was not as enriching as I had imagined it would be.
There were very few attendees and my approach to capturing the trip could have been better. I
found that when I was editing the story together my sequences focusing just on the trip lacked
the emotional story that I had imagined. I also left out a lot of the facts and details about nature
access in Los Angeles. This caused me to scramble a little bit in order to figure out what I should
be doing to make my documentary clear and compelling.
However, the trip was not a lost cause because I was still able to learn from those who did
attend the trip. There was a family of four from Pasadena, but they do not have a car, so they
tend to go everywhere by bike or metro. They often take the metro to local cultural spots within
Los Angeles. On one such trip they found a flier for a bus trip to the mountains. They decided it
would be a good thing to do with the family because they would be able to get to the bus pick up
location and enjoy a new nature area. This was Community Nature Connection’s intention to
have the bus pick up at a location with few parks and easily accessible by metro. The attendees
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commented that they would go on more buses to other areas if they were available. Nature for
All is working to create permanent bus routes to areas in the San Gabriel Mountains, but this was
not available at the time of this documentary project.
Through conversations with Professor Birman I realized that I needed to put less focus on
the bus trip and include more information introducing the problem of how Los Angeles is
lacking public transportation to wilderness areas and how Nature for All is working to fix it. I did
this by going back for another interview with Bryan Matsumoto, the project manager leading
their bus system initiatives to create bus access to the San Gabriel Mountains. There is no active
bus system yet but they have a proposed route map, which Matsumoto used to be able to show
the scope of their work. This worked well in showing what communities will be affected by the
new route, where the bus goes, and just how much space is being made accessible. While there
was nothing physical to show for the bus stops at the time, Nature for All had received about one
million dollars to get started on constructing the first of the shuttle stops, so I was sure to also
include that in my documentary.
I came into this program with a background in broadcast news journalism and a miniscule
amount of experience in documentary filmmaking. Working on this project helped me to break
out of my news broadcasting mindset and be able to expand on and visualize larger stories. This
was challenging at first because it was a struggle for me to think, procedurally, about connecting
sequence shots and conducting interviews while keeping in mind the larger story. I feel that after
this experience I am definitely better at both of these things. What I found to be the one of the
major differences between news and documentary is the amount of time it takes to contextualize
a story. When I would work on a news story, I would have to fit the whole story in one and a half
minutes. However, documentaries afford the luxury of time and require meaningful information.
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Overall, I am happy with how my documentary turned out. I was able to introduce the
problem of outdoor access and highlight multiple organizations that are working to solve it. Also,
through my interview with Mateo I was able to show how spending time outdoors and hiking has
the ability to change someone's life for the better. My goal was for the viewers of my
documentary to come away knowing about how difficult it can be for people to access nature and
serve as a reminder of all the benefits that being in nature has to offer. This was accomplished
through identifying the problem by showing different ways people are working to solve it. I was
not able to achieve as much depth as I had hoped, but the concept is clear.
I was also able to highlight how spending time in nature can help one's life through
first-hand experience. If I was to create this documentary knowing what I know now I would
work on finding more people who have been affected by their lack of access. I would also try to
find an expert working for the city to provide a more governmental perspective on the problem.
Lastly, working on my documentary has helped me to see and plan sequences and get me out of
the broadcast mindset allowing me to create more compelling and fluid visuals.
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Bibliography
Bratman, Gregory N., J. Paul Hamilton, Kevin S. Hahn, Gretchen C. Daily, and James J. Gross.
"Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation." Proceedings
of the national academy of sciences112, no. 28 (2015): 8567-8572.
Cox, Daniel TC, Danielle F. Shanahan, Hannah L. Hudson, Richard A. Fuller, Karen Anderson,
Steven Hancock, and Kevin J. Gaston. "Doses of nearby nature simultaneously associated with
multiple health benefits." International journal of environmental research and public health 14,
no. 2 (2017): 172.
“2022 Trust For Public Land Park Score.” 2022. The Trust for Public Land.
https://www.tpl.org/city/los-angeles-california.
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Documentary Script
Natural Sound
Fade in Music
Busy city street
Natural Sound
Calm breeze on trail
Natural Sound
City Street
Natural Sound
Calm stream in nature
VO Bryan Matsumoto
Program Manager - Nature For All
Bryan Interview-Clip – 0003 - 2:37
Continue shots of nature and city
Transition into showing buses and the
metro.
A lot of people don't realize that LA is a very
park poor area, a full 50% of our county
residents live in communities where they don't
have easy access to a nearby park.
VO Lautaro Narvaez
Bus Trip Attendee
Clip - Dad interview – Clip 0137 - 1:00
We go around everywhere on bike and bus, but
we cannot go too far right, and we can go like,
wherever the Metro can leave us
VO Remigio Mateo
Latino Outdoors Ambassador
Clip Remi Interview – Clip 0042 - 22:21
I'm so happy that I discovered going to the
outdoors by myself for myself and for my
benefit because I know that I've become a better
person for it.
VO Zee Zetino
Community Nature Connection
Coordinator
Clip - Zee interview 2 Clip - 0003 - 00:55
It’s just amazing to be able to provide and make
these beautiful connections for community
members so that they can really see the beauty
that's around us.
VO Tiffany Wright
Ecotherapist
Clip - Tiffany interview –Clip- 0001-
34:22
Nature is a major teacher. And it's a
representation of the purity of life.
Natural sound of stream/ music fade out
“Discovering Home” Title card
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VO- Bryan Matsumoto
Clip- over shoulder - 0005 - 2:03
Clip of mountains
Cut to over shoulder of map
I think for a lot of LA people. And I was the
same way. You know, I didn't know about the
San Gabriel Mountains growing up. So people's
LA looks like this. You know, they live in the
city, they see the mountains. It's the backdrop to
the city. But nobody knows what's back there.
What we're really doing is opening access and
opening people's eyes to all the natural beauty
that we're surrounded by.
VO- Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Interview Map - 26:56
Cut to over shoulder of map
When the mountains are 70% of our counties
open space, and you don't have a single way for
the public transit system to connect into the
public lands. That's a huge first transit problem.
And that's a huge environmental justice problem
because if people didn’t think of how to provide
access into the national forest that’s a really big
issue.
SOT - Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan interview map - 1:47
Nature for all and our many partners are really
excited because we're developing LA's first bus
system to the mountains.
SOT - Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan interview map - 1:57
This is really a critical thing for access to nature
for our gigantic urban population because you
know folks have a lot of stress in their lives. It's
really important to have a place to escape to
from the city to seek out those mental and
physical health benefits and outdoor recreation.
VO - Remigio Mateo
Clip - Remi Interview / 1:16
Shots of view from trail and him starting
hike
I believe I was 29 years old when I really wanted
to make a change in my life. LA is known for
you know the clubs or bars. So that's pretty
much what I did in my 20s. And going into my
30s
SOT - Remigio Mateo
Clip - Remi Interview / 1:25
I knew that I needed a change. And I needed
something different. And outdoors hiking was
something that was new to me.
Natural Sound
Clip 0043 - 00:02
Hiking sounds
Remigio Mateo
Clip - Remi Interview - 1:46
Still on hike
Actually, one of my friends began the 52 High
challenge, which is a social media challenge that
you log, we would log 52 hikes in a year.
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Natural Sound Hey there's a cross
Remigio Mateo
Clip - Remi Interview - 2:06
Right from the from the first day of of the year,
we did our first hike actually here at Wisdom
Tree. And from there that year I committed
myself to doing a hike a week and that sparked
my love of the outdoors, of hiking, of exploring.
Natural Sound
Clip 0041 - 00:03
Breeze
Remigio Mateo
Clip - Remi Interview - 4:15
Still hiking
And not a lot of people know about how to get
outdoors without without a vehicle. So you
know biking, using public transit, even just
carpooling with friends, were my means of
transportation. So it was really difficult at first
but once I discovered all these new groups, all
these new organizations, I also got to just
discover other other parks around the area that
would give me that access.
VO - Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan interview map - 05:25
Over shoulder pointing at map
This map is cool because it shows first of all the
metro rail system that we have. And then this is
our proposed Mount Wilson Express Route. And
coming out of Azusa, our proposed San Gabriel
Canyon route
SOT - Zee Zetino
Clip - 0008
I show this actuality clip
I'm the program coordinator with Community
Nature Connection. And so today we're going to
be going on a transits to Trails trip it is going to
be from 9am to 4pm
VO - Zee Zetino
Clip - zee interview 2 - 00:26
I show clip of preparing for the trip
And Zee’s face on cam for bit
What this trip will provide is transportation
understanding that some communities, right, this
can be a barrier to be able to access these spaces.
// in addition, //we're able to guide and do a
facilitated, //nature, strolls, nature talk, to be able
to connect the community members into spaces
in the outdoors
Natural Sound
Clip - 0014
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People getting on bus
Natural Sound
Clip - 0030
Inside the bus / driving
VO - Valentina Moline - Nestors Mom
Clip - mom interview - 00:30
Shots of her and her family on the bus
We always look for these kinds of opportunities
to go to outside, to the parks because it’s really
hard for us to move out to west side or another
side because we don't have a car, and this is
incredible here because the public transport is
not working so good. It's like a circle. People
have cars so don't need the public transport. This
kind of opportunity for us is super cool.
VO - Lautaro Naverez
Dad interview - 01:00
Shot of bus arriving and him on cam for a
bit
We go around everywhere on bike and bus. I
bike everyday to my work. We go to the grocery
store on bike. Yeah, mainly on bike, we take
buses, but we cannot go too far right that we can
go like, wherever the Metro can leave us.
Natural Sound
Clips - 0037,0043
Getting off bus and walking
SOT - Zee Zetino
Clip - picnic table talk - 05:26
Actuality of pre hike talk
With community nature connection, right, we're
an organization that strives to increase access to
the outdoors, to communities that have been
most impacted by racial socio economic and
disability injustice. And we do that by
eliminating barriers through advocacy, and this
community center programming in addition to
workforce development.
SOT - Zee Zetino
Clip - Picnic table talk 03:52
See zee talking to group
We're going to be hiking over to inspiration
point and like I mentioned in the registration
page, it's about a 1.4 mile hike. And there's like a
246 point like like elevation.
SOT - Lautaro Narvaez
Dad interview - 3:45
It's great to have the opportunity to have to have
a bus and, sadly, there are not too many busses.
No I mean, we even can pay for them, but there
is no options. We're never going to we haven't
visited many places around because we just can't
find transport.
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SOT - Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan Interview Map - 3:38
Shot of metro gold line
This shuttle to the mountains is really great
because it'll link up to the existing metro rail
system.
VO - Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan Interview Map - 4:08
Pointing at map
So what we have proposed is the Mount Wilson
express route, which will come from here,
Pasadena Memorial Park Station, and jump up
the Angeles Crest Highway and take people to
nine different stops all the way up to Mount
Wilson. Over at the very popular San Gabriel
Canyon side of the forest. That stop will come
out of Azusa station// And with our partners
we're also working on a Chantry flat route in the
middle. That's one of the most popular hiking
areas in LA. So with those three, we have the
beginning of what will really become LA's first
shuttle system to the mountain.
SOT - Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan Interview Map - 6:00
Showing around map
What this map also indicates are the
disadvantaged and severely disadvantaged
economically, communities defined by the state.
And why that's important is a lot of our low
income communities are clustered around the
metro rail system, which is really good
because//they'll be able to just hop on to their
metro line, come up to Pasadena or Azusa and
hop on the shuttle buses on the weekend and exit
out into the forest.
VO Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan interview map - 7:46
Shots of where the bus would go
Nature For All has been working on this project
for multiple years with a whole lot of partners, //
We have amazing support from our
congressional representatives from
Congresswoman Judy Chu, who was just able to
secure almost a million dollars to really break
ground on the shuttle stops, which we're so
excited about. Congressman Jimmy Gomez as
well, who's written the transit to trails act in
Congress to provide new funding for projects
like this. We have support from the city, LA
City, Mayor Garcetti, and a whole slew of
nonprofit organizations.
There are so many groups out there that you
know Community Nature Connection, folks that
in each different way are connecting folks to
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nature or working to strengthen their
communities and so we're really glad that we
work in a really collaborative environment to
work on these issues.
Natural Sound
Clip 2806
Footage of tree
SOT - Zee Zetino
Clip 0054 - 20:00
Actuality of handing out binoculars
Before I do start I'm gonna go ahead and
distribute the binoculars.// You've been excited
for binoculars so then yeah, and then I'll give
you some binoculars
Tiffany Wright
Clip Tiffany interview
Clip - 0084 - 00:04
It’s just literally a natural way of being to live
amongst nature. It’s only within a couple of
hundred years that we’ve been so removed in
highrise buildings, in offices, spending hours of
the day in factories, spending hours of a day in
cars.
Tiffany Wright SOT Something that's only happened for less than 200
years when you have thousands of years of
human existence.
Zee Zetino
Clip - 0087 - 00:00
So to the right right here we have a a bird thats
gliding it's black flying away. You did!
Tiffany Wright VO Being able to be outside your connecting to the
earth, your getting fresh air. You’re able to
breath and bring your body in to a state where
even though your not sleeping its resting
because its not worrying about
Tiffany Wright SOT I’m doing this or I’m doing that and there's all
this noise and there's all this chaos.
Tiffany Wright VO That allows you to feel safe, to feel comforted,
to feel present, it brings your stress levels down
Natural Sound
Clip 2771
Quiet sounds of trail
Nestor Naverez
Kid Interview - 6:20
Him using binoculars looking at birds
With the binoculars I saw some birds. Some
butterflies. I saw a quite a bit of hawks, hawks
and I saw some woodpeckers!
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Nestor Naverez
Clip -
I see it's right there. I wanna look at that one.
Zee Zetino
Clip - 0141 - 00:03
Again, there's more. California sagebrush smells
super good. Then we have the black sage. You
also smell it right, touch it nicely. You can smell
it has this beautiful smell super fragrant
Tiffany Wright The sensory engagement it’s really calming, and
peaceful, and really supports promoting healthy
wellbeing, so being able to touch the textures,
being able to smell and hear it really helps
decrease stress..
Zee Zetino
Clip - 0144 - 00:05
This is inspiration point. This is a beautiful, full
place to come hike to it's all the way to the top.
VO - Zee Zetino
Clip - 0185 - 01:50
Shots of people at the top of the hike
It was amazing to have folks use binoculars for
the first time. Nestor the youth was super
excited. He had lots of energy. And it seemed
like he also had a lot of knowledge through like
reading books about some of the birds and so it
was really amazing to be able to foster that
experience
Tiffany Wright Whether it’s going to a beach, going to a forest,
going to a basin, going to a desert, going to the
mountains right, it's important to know that any
topography that you're in can be restorative.
Natural Sound
Clip 0152
Shot of group hiking back down
Group Talk - everyone on hike
Clip 174- 01:00
Actuality of post hike wrap-up
And then we can share what was one highlight
from today?
For me the inspiration point
The top?
Yeah the top it was very cool the view you can
see all yeah like the valley it's super cool.
For me also the top it was just so amazing all the
hard part of climbing the mountain paid off.
SOT Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan interview map - 32:56
This is definitely a long range plan. This is 2022
now, in the next year or so, we hope to have
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designed and constructed a number of the shuttle
stops. And that will continue going into 2023
2024. You know, we're hoping to begin maybe a
very small version of the service, kind of
probably in 2024, it all depends where we can
cobble the money together. Hopefully, it'll be
faster. But you know, I think the very long range
idea is that, well, LA has Olympics coming in
2028. And so this whole system really better be
up and running and seamless. By then
VO Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan Interview map - 37:52
Shots of bus route
The shuttle project is one piece of a whole suite
of comprehensive things that need to happen in
the forest to make visitor services better,
VO Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan Interview Map - 11:15
Cont. shots of mountain
There's also a really important visitor education
side of this, that we're beginning to call recreate
with respect, because we want to really make
sure that for the folks that are coming on the
shuttle for the first time, we want to give them a
really good experience, and leave them as
knowledgeable, respectful visitors to the forest.
So that people, you know, honor and respect the
land and don't leave trash, and really are being
very sensitive visitors.
SOT - Bryan Matsumoto
Clip - Bryan interview map - 40:19
Cont. mountain shots
Providing the first chance to experience wild
nature in our own backyard, is that really
fundamental step on a whole path to becoming
an environmental protector. So if you take that
away from folks, you have to also understand
what the consequences are, you know, access has
to come with responsibility. But I believe we are
really trying to build in all that education and
responsibility so that our future stewards are
really coming out of this program.
VO Remigio Mateo
Clip - Remi Interview - 17:20
Him at the top and cutaways of the view
I hope that more youth come out, // because I
believe that this is good therapy, being out here,
being away from your phone, being away from
social media, actually talking to people, actually,
you know, listening to your thoughts while
you're out here. Looking at the animals, the birds
VO Remigio Mateo
Clip - Remi Interview - 18:01
When it comes to health, it's not just physical
health, it's physical, mental, and spiritual. So
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that's what I believe. And, you know, I believe
that's what I got
VO Remigio Mateo
Music fade in
Clip - Remi Interview - 22:21
I'm so happy that I discovered going to the
outdoors by myself for myself and for my
benefits because I know that I've become a better
person for it. And I wish that on others. I want
more people to come out here and and you
know, let it let it consume them because I think
it's just one of the best connections that we could
have.
Title Card
“Documentary by Jack Mittemeyer
Music by Everett Kim”

Abstract (if available)

Abstract One's relationship to nature is part of the human experience. My thesis takes a look at people's ability to access nature in Los Angeles. This work shows that it is currently difficult for many Los Angeles residents to affordably spend time in nature. However, there are community organizations working to fix this problem. Their work has helped change people's lives for the better. My thesis highlights this through a documentary covering these organizations and individuals.

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