The Full Length Feature
Run Time: 95 minutes

From Engine 7 Media, this verité style documentary follows a one of a kind non-profit as it works day in and day out to reduce the violence in South Central Los Angeles. Aquil Basheer, a former Black Panther, leads ex-gang members and community outreach workers through a 16 week curriculum recently adopted by the Los Angeles City Council. The mission: Peace. The method: Changing the violent mindsets of influential gang members one person at a time. The result: Hundreds of less murders per year, 87 warring neighborhoods communicating and negotiating peace agreements that stop the bloodshed before it starts. We see long standing hope for the people of these besieged communities as the power of personal transformation and change are put in their hands. Change comes from within, it starts with the individual and the community they live in. Breaking the cycle of dependence on the government or external authorities, Aquil’s method and course, which is being adopted in cities throughout the world, helps communities save themselves by transforming the mindsets of practitioners of violence to mind sets that foster peace. The problem is universal, the solution is local. As Aquil says: “It’s on you.”