Alex Demyanenko is the producer of “Bastards of the Party” a feature documentary about the history of gangs in L.A. that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on HBO. The film was the first to expose the systemic abuses of the LAPD. Demyanenko was also the executive editor of the “Los Angeles View” newspaper in April of 1992, and he and his staff were on the streets covering the 1992 unrest as it unfolded. He is a regular contributor to Capital & Main.
For over three years filmmaker/journalist Kelly Candaele has been documenting the construction of the Wilshire Grand Center, whose tower rises 1,100 feet into the air, making it the tallest building west of the Mississippi.
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The networks lined up to deliver numerous retrospective documentaries on the silver anniversary of the events that began just hours after the Rodney King beating verdict was read. The results are decidedly mixed.
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I Am Not Your Negro is a cinematic poem. A jarring juxtaposition of writing and found footage, it is both an elegant and elegiac tribute to a man whose ideas are as relevant today as they were when he was alive.
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Dustin Lance Black’s When We Rise presents a unique opportunity to not only entertain, but to also enlighten people. Which makes its failings that much more disappointing.
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