G-Dog

Author

Freida Lee Mock

Call Number

• DVD 259.5 G1115 (WSQ)

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Performers

Greg Boyle.

Publication Information

[New York] : Docurama Films : Distributed by New Video Group, [2013]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

This documentary is about second chances--about a charasmatic visionary who launched the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the US, now an international model, Homeboy Industries. The film tells the 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.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a documentary in 2012.