FREE SCREENING MAY 2 at SIFF CINEMA at SEATTLE CENTER
Directed
by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Stacy Peralta and
Executive Produced by NBA star Baron Davis and Silicon Valley
entrepreneur Stephen Luczo, CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA  tells
the story of the Crips and Bloods, South Los Angeles’ two most infamous
African-American gangs.

Combining
unprecedented access into the worlds of active gangs, CRIPS AND BLOODS:
MADE IN AMERICA  offers a compelling, character-driven documentary
narrative which chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and
despair that defines modern gang culture.

Throughout
the film ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists
and academics analyze many of the 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.