More Than Property

The United Hands Community Land Trust has dissolved in the years since the video was completed.

Toni Cade Bambara authored two short story collections, Gorilla, My Love and The Seabirds Are Still Alive; a novel, The Salt Eaters; and a collection of fiction, essays, and conversations, Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions (all of which are available from Vintage Books). A noted documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, Bambara taught writing workshops at Scribe for many years and collaborated on numerous productions. Her film work includes the documentaries "The Bombing of Osage Avenue" and "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices." She died in 1995.

Chris Emmanoulides is Director of Programming at Banyan Productions where he oversees over 170 episodes of reality-based television programming. He is also co-founder of Parallax Pictures, an independent film and television production company whose focus is on commercial, documentary, and feature filmmaking. He co-produced and photographed The Ad and the Ego, an hour-length documentary on the impact of advertising on contemporary culture, which took first prize in its category at the 40th annual San Francisco International Film Festival in 1997 and is currently in international distribution.

His other films -- including Remains (1993), Suelto! (1989), A Border Crossing (1988) -- have screened at numerous international film festivals including Sundance, AFI and Margaret Mead. Chris is also an advisor on many independent productions and has served on the Advisory Council of the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association (PIFVA). He continues to work as a cameraman on a select number of independent documentary projects and teaches 16mm production at The Scribe Video Center, a community based media arts center in Philadelphia.