Leah Mahan has made two award-winning documentaries:

HOLDING GROUND: THE REBIRTH OF DUDLEY STREET (1997) is about the successful grassroots effort to revitalize a devastated Boston neighborhood.

“This terrific documentary … will come like rain in a dry season to communities all over the nation.”

Jonathan Kozol, author of “Death at an Early Age”

SWEET OLD SONG (2002) is about the romance between string-band musician and national treasure Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong and artist Barbara Ward.

Directors Guild of America, Outstanding Directorial Achievement Nomination, 2002

Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival (Ebertfest), Official Selection, 2004

Works in progress:

TURKEY CREEK is about a Mississippi Gulf Coast community, settled by emancipated slaves, that has built powerful alliances to fight urban sprawl and industrial contamination — to protect the culture and natural environment that sustained eight generations.

Preview and filmmaker Q & A featured on “Bill Moyers Journal”

HOLDING GROUND sequel continues the story of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, following teen volunteers as they become adult leaders and witnessing this groundbreaking organization’s approach to the national economic crisis.