LEWISTON – A local filmmaker’s documentary recounting the city’s controversial 2004 Heritage Initiative will be premiered Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Lewiston Public Library.

The documentary, filmed by videographer Craig Saddlemire, follows the creation of the Visible Community, a group of activists who banded together to oppose the initiative to revitalize the neighborhoods around Kennedy Park.

The feature-length movie, titled “Neighbor by Neighbor: Mobilizing an Invisible Community in Lewiston, Maine,” is narrated by local youth and features a soundtrack by local musicians. It will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in Callahan Hall. Admission is free.

The city’s initiative tried to revitalize Lewiston’s downtown, with new business and a four-lane boulevard connecting Lisbon Street with the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. That boulevard would have been built through the downtown neighborhood and over parks, homes and tenements.

Residents and activists from around Maine came together to protest the plan, forming the Visible Community.

Saddlemire’s documentary tracks the group’s growth as it protested the plan, agitated to get a community park put back in the neighborhood and worked to elect one of its own members, Tina Bailey, to the Lewiston City Council.

In a release, the Visible Community said it hopes the film will be a celebration of the people of downtown Lewiston and their hard work to effect positive change.

A trailer can be viewed online at www.roundpointmovies.org/roundpointmovies/trailer.html.