Gangsta Gardener

2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival

Duration: 16 min

Synopisis

Gangsta Gardener offers a powerful narrative through a single interview with Ron Finley, paired with stunning cinematography from his South Los Angeles garden. Ron Finley, a legend in the world of gardening (his gardening Masterclass is one of the most popular on the site), shares his profound journey and relentless pursuit to create a better world by empowering others to challenge societal norms. His garden, located in South Los Angeles, serves as a living testament to his mission of sustainable neighborhood gardening. 

Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025

Production Team

Rocky Romano & Miranda Winters are award-winning filmmakers celebrated for their striking and thought-provoking non-fiction content. Focused on the vast capabilities and inherent limits of the human spirit, their work delivers awe-inspiring narratives that are both locally grounded and globally significant. Committed to telling authentic stories and creating socially conscious projects that highlight the transformative power of storytelling, their expertise in storytelling and character development, coupled with a bold cinematic style provides audiences with an intimate look into diverse, tight-knit, and often underrepresented communities around the world.

Their narratives have spanned from the streets of Los Angeles, as seen in projects like Letters to Liam, We Can't Breathe, and Gangsta Gardener, to the adrenaline-inducing waves of Portugal and Hawaii, showcased in the Emmy® award-winning 100 Foot Wave, Red Chargers, and Chasing Monsters, to the vast plains of Wyoming for their award-winning feature documentary Blue Zeus narrated by Gerard Butler.