Crips and Bloods (2008)

Crips and Bloods: Directed by Stacy Peralta. With Jim Brown, Tony Muhammad, Kershaun Scott, Forest Whitaker. With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.

“I recently saw this at Birmingham, Alabamau0026#39;s Sidewalk Film Festival. Stacey spoke afterward the screening about how the movie was shown many times to people in LA to make sure that he was getting the right angle. Also, that he spent months WITHOUT a camera getting to know the people that were featured in the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLiving in Birmingham, being one the nationu0026#39;s most dangerous and racially-divided cities, I can see how this film is relatable to all oppression-linked crime.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI think that this issue is extremely too large for Stacey to have adjusted his focus any wider. To ask the director to squeeze more information into this documentary would be asking too much of him. I thought that it was, over-all, very interesting visually and in meaning which can be hard to come by in todayu0026#39;s documentaries. I really hope HBO or some other distributer picks this doc up. It needs to be seen, not only by LA natives, but all of America.”