JBF Awards: Father Greg Boyle, Humanitarian of the Year

Client: James Beard Foundation / Bowen and Company
Format: Short Form Event Video
Release: 2016
Duration: 3:56

The 2016 Humanitarian of the Year award recipient, Father Greg Boyle, S.J., founder and executive director of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world, will receive the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year award. A Jesuit priest, Father Boyle has dedicated his life to helping those in need. In 1992, in the aftermath of the civil unrest in Los Angeles, he launched Homeboy Bakery, where former rival gang members worked side by side and learned both business and baking skills. Its success laid the groundwork for additional social enterprises within the Homeboy brand, including Homegirl Café & Catering, Homeboy Diner in Los Angeles City Hall, and a retail presence at Los Angeles–area farmers’ markets. Every year more than ten thousand formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women come through Homeboy Industries’s doors.

A Linton Media Production, produced for the James Beard Foundation in collaboration with Bowen and Company.

Executive Producer / Director:
Katherine Linton

Editor:
Alison Shurman

Post-Production Supervisor:
Jorge Garcia-Spitz

Director of Photography:
Vincent Venturella

Assistant Editor:
Zoe Alexander

Re-Recording Mixer:
Rafi Chen, Nati Taub, Ronen Nagel / SoundAround Studios, Tel Aviv

Producer / Production Manager:
Genevieve Baker