G-DOG
(92 min) US
[watch trailer]

Wednesday 10/22, 3:50 PM (Session 17)
UNAFF in Schools Program (FREE ADMISSION for student and teachers)

Director/Producer: Freida Mock

Description:

G-DOG is a story about second chances - about a charismatic visionary Greg Boyle - Jesuit priest and unlikely gang expert - who launched the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the US, now a global model. The film tells an often hilarious story of how Father Greg, called G-Dog by his homies, believing that ‘Nothing Stops a Bullet like a Job,’ transformed the lives of thousands of Latino, Asian and African American former gang members . His Homeboy Industries in LA has a seventy percent success rate in rescuing kids from gang life by providing tattoo removal, job training, yoga, fatherhood and substance abuse classes, all for free. Most importantly, it provides kinship, home and family.

Biography:

Freida Mock is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, a director, writer and producer of feature length and short form theatrical documentary films. These include the Academy Award-winner Maya Lin: A Strong Vision about the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.  Mock’s other Academy Award-nominated films include: Rose Kennedy, a Life to Remember; SING! about one of the best children’s chorus in the US; Never Give UP, about the holocaust survivor and conductor Dr. Herbert Zipper; and To Live or Let Die, a story about medical ethics. Mock’s newest film ANITA – Speaking Truth to Power, about the life and times of Anita Hill, was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films. ANITA was selected by the US State Department for the 2014 American Film Showcase diplomacy initiative to be shown in US embassies around the world. Mock’s recent film G–DOG was also selected for the US State Department’s 2013 American Film Showcase. Mock’s films focus on stories about art, history, politics and creativity and her recent ones are: Return With Honor, the story of American fighter pilots surviving as POWs in Hanoi, a presentation of Tom Hanks and Playtone and Lt. Watada, short-listed for the Oscars, about the first military officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq and to speak out about the illegality of the war. Mock was the first governor elected to the new Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and served as chair.  She is presently co-chair of the DGA Documentary Awards selection committee. 

Contact Information:

Sanders & Mock Productions
e: am.film@verizon.net
w: www.gdogthemovie.com

 



©2014 United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF)
Mission
Submission
Films
Schedule
Tickets
Traveling Festival
Special Screenings
Sponsors
Support
Volunteers
Press
Links
Awards
Contact
Archive
Mailing List
If you would like to receive periodic updates about UNAFF events, please click HERE to join our mailing list.

Facebook


Twitter

Support UNAFF!
We are a nonprofit organization and if you like what we do, please consider making a donation.

paypal





SELECT A FILM:
After Tiller
Alumbrones
Angel Azul
The Apothecary
Barefoot
The Barefoot Artist
Bastards
The Box
Brave Miss World
Broken City Poets
A Civil Remedy
Counting the Dead
Dance Up From the Street
Disruption
Drones in My Backyard
Dry Season
The E-Waste Tragedy
Facing Fear
Families Are Forever
The Forgotten
Freedom Summer
G-DOG
Generation Z: Child Soldiers of the Zetas
The Gold Spinners
Growing Home
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
I am a Girl
In Plain Sight
In The Wake of Stalin
It All Started With Mom
It's Up to You
Jesus was a Commie
JFK: A President Betrayed
The Kill Team
Killing Her is a Ticket to Paradise
King's Point
Languages in Survival: Menik
The Last Battle
The Last Season
Libya, the Migrant Trap
Light and Dark
Maria of Many
Marshland Dreams
Matthieu Ricard, On the Path to Compassion
Mestizo
The Mural
My Stolen Revolution
The Pad Piper
Pakistan's Hidden Shame
A People Without a Land
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Red Lines
Regarding Susan Sontag
Running from Crazy
Sewing Hope
Slomo
Slums: Cities of Tomorrow
Stumped
The Supreme Price
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
To Kill a Sparrow
Tomorrow We Disappear
Trashed
True Son
Valentino's Ghost
When You Can't See The Film
White Earth
The Wild Years
Wrenched
Young Voices for the Planet: Kids vs Global Warming