The film explores a neighborhood’s ultimately victorious efforts to create and preserve at grade access to the Schuylkill River Park despite the adamant objections of the CSX Railroad. The short documentary film chronicles the protracted grass-roots fight against CSX and their effort to block the community's access to the Schuylkill river. It serves to inspire and instruct other organizations on how to successfully wage network-centric organizing campaigns to improve and protect their own communities.

Free the River Park was produced and directed by Rob Stuart, President of Evolve Strategies, who as a leader in the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, helped coordinate the campaign, and Tara Nurin, producer of Tigre Hill’s The Barrel of a Gun. The documentary was filmed in HD on location from July 2007 through June 2008 and contains interviews with Philadelphia Mayor Nutter, CSX Resident Vice President, Bill Goetz, Councilmen Darrell Clarke and Jack Kelly, State Representative Babette Josephs, Schuylkill River Park Alliance co-coordinators Russell Meddin and Sarah Clark Stuart, as well as Schuylkill River Development Council founder John Randolph and park users. It runs approximately 15 minutes. 

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