CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA d: Stacy Peralta
Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008)
Direction: Stacy Peralta
Screenplay: Stacy Peralta and Sam George
Narration: Forest Whitaker
In the 1980s and into the first half of the 1990s, gang violence in American urban centers grabbed nightly news headlines with a distant sensationalism that appears almost quaint in the era of the 24-hour news cycle. Perhaps because threats emerging beyond the borders of the United States appear more prevalent or maybe because superficial aspects of the thug life entered the pop culture vernacular, gang warfare in cities such as Los Angeles has bled into the background of media chatter in the last fifteen years.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America reintroduces the conversation into the mainstream. Director Stacy Peralta [...]
by Doug Johnson | October 29, 2009
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Tags: Crips and Bloods: Made in America, Documentaries, Film Reviews, Forest Whitaker, Sam George, Stacy Peralta
CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA, THE GARDEN Screening
Set in Los Angeles’ impoverished inner city areas, the documentaries The Garden (above, lower photo) and Crips and Bloods: Made in America will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
In Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s The Garden, the organization South Central Farmers fight a wealthy developer in order to preserve the community garden they created after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Garden earned an Academy Award nomination for Documentary Feature. Kennedy will be present to take questions from the audience following the [...]
