Lives in Hazard

DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY ANDREW YOUNG & SUSAN TODD
PHOTOGRAPHED BY ANDREW YOUNG

To make his feature film American Me, about the Mexican Mafia, actor/director Edward James Olmos hired real gang members to act in the movie. Lives in Hazard follows them off the set and into the ’hood for a tough, uncompromising look at kids in gangs and the men they become in the California prison system. Premiered Prime Time on NBC Television with an introduction by President Clinton.