If You Build It

If You Build It
film poster
Directed byPatrick Creadon
Produced by
Narrated by
  • Emily Pilloton-Lam
  • Matt Miller
CinematographyGeorge Desort
Edited by
  • Nick Andert
  • Douglas Blush
  • Daniel J. Clark
Music byPeter Golub
Production
company
O'Malley Creadon Productions
Distributed byLong Shot Factory
Release dates
  • April 6, 2013 (2013-04-06) (Durham, NC)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

If You Build It is a 2013 documentary directed by Patrick Creadon,[1] produced by Neal Baer, and filmed on location largely in the town of Windsor and surrounding Bertie County, North Carolina, the state's poorest county.[2]

The documentary follows a year in the life of an innovative, design-based high school program, culminating with the design and sixteen-week construction of a farmer's market pavilion, the only farmers market pavilion in the U.S. designed and built by high school students.[3]

The film's title is a truncated reference to the catchphrase "if you build it, he will come" from the 1989 film Field of Dreams.[4]

  1. ^ "Film Review: If You Build It". Architectural Record.
  2. ^ "Emily Pilloton Talks Inspiring Students Through Design in 'If You Build It'". Way Too Indie, February 25, 2014, Bernard Boo.
  3. ^ "Windsor Super Market". Project H. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  4. ^ "IF YOU BUILD IT WILL THEY COME? CAN A HIGH SCHOOL CLASS IN RURAL AMERICA TRANSFORM THEIR TOWN WITH ARCHITECTURE?". Architectural Review, January 16, 2014, Phineas Harper.