Synopsis:
An observational piece, set in and around a buzzy gospel church in
Watts, one of the most troubled districts in Los Angeles, Hoover
Street Revival is a documentary about black faith in a hard place.
Vérité-style shots of local lives, jobs, houses, bathrooms, kids
and kitchen sinks, are imaginatively bled into footage of the
charismatic pastor, Bishop Noel Jones, whose sermons combine
humour, metaphysics, acute social observation and practical advice
on how to survive in one of the toughest ghettos in Los Angeles.
This is a man who turns a neat profit from packaging and selling
his emotive sermons, but the need of his parishioners to believe in
him is strangely moving.
Awards
Nominated for Best British Documentary award at the 2003 BIFA
awards
Festivals
Locarno Festival, 2002
Edinburgh Film Festival, 2002.
Synopsis:
An observational piece, set in and around a buzzy gospel church in
Watts, one of the most troubled districts in Los Angeles, Hoover
Street Revival is a documentary about black faith in a hard place.
Vérité-style shots of local lives, jobs, houses, bathrooms, kids
and kitchen sinks, are imaginatively bled into footage of the
charismatic pastor, Bishop Noel Jones, whose sermons combine
humour, metaphysics, acute social observation and practical advice
on how to survive in one of the toughest ghettos in Los Angeles.
This is a man who turns a neat profit from packaging and selling
his emotive sermons, but the need of his parishioners to believe in
him is strangely moving.