Evolve Strategies, a full-service communications firm located in Philadelphia, created "Free the River Park," a 15 minute documentary about the arduous campaign to secure the public access through  two at-grade crossings to the Schuylkill River Park Trail.

The film explores a citizens’ ultimately victorious efforts to create and preserve at grade access to the Schuylkill River Park despite the adamant objections of CSX Railroad.  The 15-minute film chronicles the protracted grass-roots fight against CSX and their effort to block the community's access to the Schuylkill river, and serves to inspire and instruct other organizations on how to successfully wage efforts 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 on location from July 2007 through June 2008  and contains interviews with 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. More about Evolve Strategies: Evolve Strategies is a full-service communications firm serving issue advocacy, nonprofit, and political organizations. Evolve creates compelling campaigns using expert strategies and the latest  new media technology.