Because the movie “G-DOG” is so popular, screenings have been extended for this weekend, May 4th and May 5th. Get to the 11am show along with a Q&A at the following Laemmle locations:
· Laemmle Monica 4-Plex – 1332 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Q&A with filmmaker)
·Laemmle North Hollywood 7 – 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601 (Q&A with Homeboy reps)
·Laemmle Playhouse 7 – 673 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101 (Q&A with Homeboy reps)
·Laemmle Claremont 5 – 450 W. 2nd St., Claremont, CA 91711 (Q&A with Homeboy reps)
Purchase tickets for the showings listed above HERE
Father Greg Boyle has devoted most of hist entire life the the women and men
in the Homeboy community. Here is the trailer for a documentary of his
experiences and journey to starting Homeboy Industries, becoming who he is today.
G-DOG is about second chances — about a charismatic visionary who launched the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the US, now an international model, Homeboy Industries.
G-DOG tells the entertaining, hilarious and unlikely story of how a white Jesuit priest became an expert in gang lives. His name is Father Greg Boyle (G-Dog to his homies) and he works by a powerful idea: “Nothing stops a bullet like a job.” G-Dog’s unstoppable compassion has transformed the lives of thousands of Latino, Asian, and African American gang members.
His Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, with a 70% success rate at redirecting kids away from gang life, is global in influence — Manchester, Toronto, Hamburg, Rio and more. It provides tattoo removal, job training, counseling, yoga, fatherhood and substance abuse classes — all free. It’s the one place in the ‘hood that turns lives around: swapping violence for community and building toward a future of hope.
Cinedigm is debuting Oscar®-winning director Freida Mock’s award-winning G-DOG in conjunction with the company’s new 7-film, 7-week theatrical DOCURAMA film series, launching April 22 in theaters nationwide. The film opens the series on April 22, followed by its cable VOD premiere on April 23 and DVD/Digital release on April 30. The film, which
has become an audience favorite at film festivals around the world, first premiered in April 2012 at Toronto’s Hots Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, followed by its U.S. premiere in June at the Los Angeles Film Festival. G-DOG has been selected by the U.S. State Department to represent the States at U.S. embassies around the world as part of its 2013 American Film Showcase.
Father Gregory Boyle ’s MOTHER (pictured here in purple) and her the triple OG crew would like to thank you for all the amazing support by our online commUNITY for the LA2050 contest. We have placed 1st in our category and 2nd over all, so it looks like we should win the prize. Again Thank you!!!
“Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion”.- Father Gregory Boyle
A new DIY workshop program by the name of Skatistan has just produced
the first Afghanistan-made skate decks.
Skatistan focuses on getting girls and children involved in group
projects to bring the community together and “help break the
cycles of poverty and exclusion.”
Go check out their site and maybe even make a donation!
Along with music from the Johnny Vatos Boingo Dance Party, there will be a screening of the new documentary showing how the men and women of Homeboy came together to get through a severe financial crisis, starring Father Greg Boyle!
This should be pretty fun, with lots of bands and cool people!
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