Documentary on Antonio "King Tone" Fernandez and his gang, the Latin Kings, whose main target was to protect Latin people.
Direction
Alpert's decades-long access builds devastating trust with subjects.
Editing
Jagged cuts between King Tone's rhetoric and raw street reality.
Director
Jon Alpert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jon Alpert spent 20 years embedded with the Latin Kings, capturing footage HBO initially rejected as 'too sympathetic.'
The Latin Kings' 'Amor De Rey' hand sign and black-and-gold colors became so recognizable that RICO prosecutors used documentary footage as evidence in later trials.
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