This controversial doc won many awards including a Telly, and 2 local Emmy's and 11 nominations. It was also an official selection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Film Festival
If you grew up in Detroit you'll appreciate some of this home cookin! This playlist includes a clip from each of the three documentaries on the DVD, Detroit ...
Justiceville
Los Angeles skid row is the setting for this multi-award winning production. A spirited group of homeless people attempt to create their own community in response to dangerous and overcrowded conditions at area shelters. Narrated by Eileen Brennan Winner; Bronze Apple: National Educational Film & Video Festival
Premiered on The Discovery Channel.
"Justiceville" song written & produced by Tom "Beefbone" Bolema & Gary Glaser. Performed by Roger G. Smith (HollyWatts).
Here’s a version sung By Ice T https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NafsV695I1I&feature=youtu.be :
Shot mostly on VHS, when VHS was not welcome on broadcast TV (as well as some BetaCam footage shot by G. John Slagle, http://www.gjohnslagle.com/ thankfully).
It's World Premiere was on the Discovery Channel. The documentary was also broadcast on several PBS stations and won a variety of awards.
( Here's a link to an article in the Los Angeles Times about the production, and the irony of nearly becoming homeless myself). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59d13215017db22813f09d33/t/59f4d5668e7b0f7a60348563/1509217642192/times1.pdf
This playlist features clips from Bombing L.A., A Graffiti Documentary. Meet some of L.A.s most notorious OG writers of the late 80’s/early 90’s.
Shot from the graffiti writers perspective , this controversial doc was featured at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and excerpts were broadcast on the Today show.
In one clip, Plex explains his moral code regarding grafitti and “other peoples stuff”.
Also watch “Wisk” one of L.A.’s most prolific taggers, get caught after hopping a fence
“An audio & video feast”
L.A. Weekly (Pick of the Week)
Winner; Bronze Apple: National Educational Film & Video Festival
"The Brown House" fifty years in a Frank Lloyd Wright Home
The first few minutes from The Brown House documentary. The Brown Family of Kalamazoo Michigan built a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in cooperation with the famed architect.
(I had to cut around some music for copyright issues and replace with Youtube music.) For over fifty years Eric and Ann Brown have lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright home in the Parkwyn district of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Home was kept to the exact design elements as dictated by the architect. Featuring rare photos of Frank Lloyd Wright in Kalamazoo, personal correspondence between the family and the architect, and interviews with three generations, this documentary is an endearing portrait of one of Kalamazoo's preeminent families, and the home they loved. (a half hour version aired on several PBS stations)
The Kalamazoo Kings were a professional baseball team in the Frontier League, not affiliated with Major League Baseball. They won their first Frontier League Championship in 2005. This is a doc we did for the team in 2004. DVD's were given to the first 1,000 fans as part of a promotion. It's a family friendly look at a small town team going to bat for the community, (too corny?) The Kings games were broadcast on Kalamazoo radio station The Fan 1660 WQLR. They went out of business in 2011. "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" performed by John Knific Narrated by Larry Long