K-TOWN'92 is an interactive documentary website and short film by Peabody Award winning filmmaker Grace Lee that reveals new insights into the 1992 Los Angeles riots through untold stories of diverse Angelenos in LA's ionic Koreatown, then and now. These are the stories that the media didn't know or didn't bother to tell. You can view K-TOWN'92 as a free-standing interactive documentary website.
A 15-minute companion documentary short, K-TOWN'92 Reporters, explores media coverage at the city's paper of record during the 1992 civil unrest. At that time, Hector Tobar, Tammerlin Drummond, and John Lee reported from the field for the Los Angeles Times. Twenty-five years later, they revisit their stories and impressions of those tumultuous events, and reflect on the media coverage they helped create.
K-TOWN'92 Reporters will air nationally on the WORLD Channel in May. You can also view it online here:
If you're in Los Angeles, you're invited to the K-TOWN'92 community launch event, which will include a screening of K-TOWN'92 Reporters and a panel discussion with filmmaker Grace Lee, NPR and KPCC's Oliver Wang, the Los Angeles Times' Victoria Kim, Marketplace's Joanne Griffith, and veteran LA journalist John Lee, who is featured in the film. It's happening Thursday, May 11 at the Japanese American National Museum's Tateuchi Democracy Forum.
K-TOWN '92 Reporters, Community Screening Event
WHERE:
Japanese American Museum
Takeuchi Democracy Forum
111 N. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
WHEN:
Thursday, May 11, 2017
7:00 pm: Doors open & Light Reception
7:30 pm Program Begins
Attend a screening of K-TOWN '92 Reporters and hear from an elite group of panelists reflecting on who got to tell the story of the 1992 uprising, and what that means for journalism today.
Peabody Award winning filmmaker Grace Lee, Angela Oh
NPR and KPCC's Oliver Wang, the LA Times' Victoria Kim,
Marketplaces Joanne Griffith, and veteran LA journalist
John Lee (who is featured in the film)
The event is free and open to the public, but you must register. For further information, go here.
For more on this topic, I also recommend checking out Episode 7 of our podcast They Call Us Bruce, which features guests Grace Lee and Justin Chon discussing their respective projects related to the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
