CHAVEZ RAVINE: A LOS ANGELES STORY, AUTISM IS A WORLD at UCLA
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story (above), Best Sister, Hotel City, and Autism Is a World are four short documentaries that will be screened in the "Contemporary Documentary" series presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television Archive on Feb. 1.
Directed by Jordan Mechner, and produced by Mechner with Don Normark, Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story chronicles the eviction of 300 families in a Mexican-American community near downtown LA. A public housing project was promised at the time, but instead the powers-that-be opted to build Dodger Stadium.
Ira Wohl’s Best Sister tells the story of the filmmaker’s elderly cousin, Frances. In 1979, Wohl won an Oscar [...]