Stacy Peralta Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]