“Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992” Lincoln Square / ABC
Producer for an ABC documentary film about police brutality and the ten years leading up to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Directed by Oscar-winner John Ridley the film had a theatrical release and earned numerous awards including a 2017 duPont Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Airdate: April 2017
“Artfully told and deeply reported, this documentary reconstructed the decade-long series of events leading up to the 1992 racially charged Los Angeles riots.”
- Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards [2017]
April 2017 / ABC
Critical Acclaim:
Let it Fall accomplishes what straightforward nonfiction narrative can do in the best of circumstance.
—Michale Phillips, Chicago Tribune
What makes the astoundingly edited "Let It Fall" so powerful is that it's an oral history, told through many angles: residents, police officers, victims, families of the victims, witnesses, jurors and a host of others.
—David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Teeming with acts both heroic and reprehensible, John Ridley's wrenchingly humane documentary, "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992," reveals the Los Angeles riots as the almost inevitable culmination of a decade of heightening racial tensions.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Searing images and interviews drive John Ridley's cogent documentary reconstruction of how escalating tensions finally erupted in all-out chaos on the streets of L.A..
—André Hereford, Film Journal International
The strength of "Let It Fall" is in its remarkable contemporary interviews, compelling both for the people recorded and the way the conversations are allowed to unfold.
—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times