Bastards of the Party
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Cle Shaheed Sloan
Geronimo Pratt
Longjohn Washington
Luciano Desouza
Dr. Ernest Smith
Andrew Murray
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A comprehensive history of the growth of gang culture of Los Angeles surveyed by former gang member Cle Sloan. Raised in the Athens Park, L.A., Cle "Bone" Sloan was four when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan makes a powerful call for change within contemporary gang culture with this documentary: Haunted by his personal involvement in the gang's pervasive culture of violence, Sloan wanted to explore where it all began. The film is a chronological history of the development of black gangs in Los Angeles from the late 1940's up to the brief truce between the Crips and Bloods that followed the Rodney King riots in 1992. As Sloan continued his research he discovered that the roots of black gangs were nurtured within a distinct political landscape. From the Spook-hunters, the Farmers, the Slauscons, the Businessmen, the Gladiators, Sloan follows a trail that covers the politically charged atmosphere of the '60s and '70s through to the breakdown of community in the '80s and '90s. Interviews include: past and current gang members from the Bloods and Crips; notable L.A. historian Mike Davis; former FBI agent Wes Swearingen; and Geronimo Pratt, former Black Panther Party's Minister of Defense.
Director
Cle Shaheed Sloan
Cast
Geronimo Pratt
Longjohn Washington
Luciano Desouza
Dr. Ernest Smith
Andrew Murray
J Daniel Johnson
Jamel Barnes
M Wesley Swearingen
Flip Side
Bobby Lavender
Akinyele Umoja
Yusef Shakeer
Marian Peterson
Jack Blum
Charles Murray
Ronald Freeman
Lil' Monster
Roland Freeman
Crip Cal
Ericka Huggins
Joe Hicks
Amde Muhammad
Mike Davis
Watani Tyehimba
Crew
A Alonso
Alex Alonso
Alex Alonso
Alan Barker
Tony Bohrer
Tony Bolm
Michael Bratkowski
Bob Brian
Mark D Burton
Michael Carter
Lisa Caruso
Joong-han Chung
Joan Churchill
Enrico Cortes
Darren Davis
Alex Demyanenko
Mark Dimambro
Nicholas Edwards
Mark Evans
Charles Finley
Danielle Fiorello
Antoine Fuqua
Curtis Norman Fuqua
Alan Garcia
Richard Garibaldi
Robert Getty
Jacqueline Glover
Jack Gulick
Jackson Helton
Luis Hernandez
Chato Hill
Randy Holland
Cardel Howard
Matthew Iadarola
Dan Jones
Eyal Kattan
David Kovenetsky
Byron T Levy
Andrew Lichtstein
Magalis A Martinez
Keith Mccomb
Gerald Mckinley
Richard Mercado
Sheila Nevins
Phil Parmet
Shursen Parsad
Sara Poisson
Jamie Proctor
Matt Reale
Gregory Didisi Rivers
John Rodd
Kevin Rolly
Pierre Romain
James A Salkind
Keith Salmon
Keith Salmon
Kevin Scaggs
Richard Schexnayder
Robert Sheafer
Anne-marie Slack
Brian Slack
Cle Shaheed Sloan
Cle Shaheed Sloan
Mark Smith
Greg Spence
Alec St John
Haskell Wexler
Derrick Williams
Calvin Wimmer
Mark Woods
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States February 6, 2007
Aired in USA on HBO Network on February 6, 2007.
HBO has acquired the rights to the documentary. HBO is negotiating a potential theatrical run.
Shown at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, 2005
