- Died two days before his film, Operation: Dreamland won an Independent Spirit Award.
- The 1995 San Diego incident of the unemployed plumber who rampaged the streets in a stolen Army tank destroying property sparked his interest in filming documentaries.
- Was visiting his family in Coronado, California when he died of cardiac arrest while swimming in a public pool.
- At the time of his death he was planning to film in Afghanistan and was working on a project about San Francisco city politics in the 1970s.
- His classmates had a reunion in July 2007. As part of the reunion, some of his classmates started work on a memorial bench with a plaque dedicated to Garrett.
- As part of his High School graduating class's 20th reunion held in July 2007, his classmates gathered funds for a memorial bench dedicated to Garrett.
- His classmates donated more than enough funds for the memorial plaque and bench. The extra funds have been turned over to Working Films, which has set up a new restricted fund to support a documentary prize in Garrett's memory/spirit.
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