Thursday, July 26 | 5:00 PM
Tinker Auditorium
(inside Florence Gould Hall)
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis
Children of the War is the first feature-length documentary to tell the story of the world’s largest and most violent street gang, the Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13.
Spanning the Americas with an estimated membership of 100,000 people, the MS-13 has been declared by the FBI to be the fastest-growing and most dangerous street gang in the United States. Through a series of over 80 interviews with the gang’s founders, gang members, experts and academics, as well as footage shot inside jails in El Salvador and on the gang-infested streets of Los Angeles, the film sheds light on the personal reasons for MS-13 membership, the ensuing explosion of violence both inside and outside of the gang, and the complex role social and government policy have played both in containing and aggravating the gang’s proliferation.
Additional Screening:
Friday, July 27
