Made In America

A Reel Progress Screening

May 13, 2008, 7:15pm – 9:30pm

About This Event

Made in America, a selection for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the rise of the Crips and Bloods, tracing the origins of their bloody four-decades long feud, and setting up the introduction of a cast of contemporary gang members whose street-level testimony provides the film with a stark portrait of modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy and family structure, the rules of behavior, the culture of guns, death and dishonor.

More than a simple account, perspective is an essential element of Made in America. Throughout the film ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists and academics analyze many of the salient issues that contribute to South LA's malaise: the erosion of identity that fuels the self-perpetuating legacy of black self-hatred, the disappearance of the African-American father and an almost pervasive prison culture in which today one out of every four black men will be imprisoned at some point in his life.

Please join us for a provocative Q&A session immediately following the film.

***You must present a photo ID in order to enter the Studio Lot***

Featured Speakers:
Rev. Jeff Carr, Director, Gang Reduction and Youth Development Programs for the City of Los Angeles
Stacy Peralta, Director, Made in America
Connie Rice, Co-Director, Advancement Project Los Angeles

Also speaking will be several subjects from the film.

Location

Little Theater
20th Century Fox Studios
10201 W. Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90064

The Liberty Hill Foundation partners with innovative and effective Los Angeles grassroots organizations to combat poverty and injustice and to help transform the "City of Angels" into a place that promises safety, equality and opportunity for all who live here. Liberty Hill's motto is "Change. Not Charity." Charity is important but our dollars go the next step – organizing, advocating and creating change for the long-term.