"G-Dog" Film Screening with Freida Lee Mock In-Person
NOTHING STOPS A BULLET LIKE A JOB
G-DOG is about second chances – about a charismatic visionary who launched the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the country.
The film tells the entertaining, hilarious and unlikely story of how a white Jesuit priest became an expert in gang lives. Called G-Dog by his homies – his name is Father Greg Boyle – 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. 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.
The 93-minute film will be introduced by its Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning director Freida Lee Mock. In-person only.
- Date:
- Friday, October 18, 2024
- Time:
- 4:30pm - 6:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall
- Campus:
- The Community Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Films & Performances
Freida Lee Mock is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, a director, producer, and writer whose award-winning films include the following: “Sing!,” "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision," "Return with Honor, "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power," and "Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in her Own Words." She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and founded the nonprofit American Film Foundation, which specializes in producing films on the arts, sciences and the humanities.
