YOU AND A GUEST ARE INVITED TO A SPECIAL SCREENING OF TAKE NONE GIVE NONE
Thursday June 25, 2015 @ 7:00 p.m.
Museum of Contemporary Art
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
To RSVP for the above screening, please contact MC@takenonegivenonethefilm.com
Founded by Lionel Ricks in 1959 and integrated in 1960, the Chosen Few MC is the first multiracial
outlaw motorcycle club in America. Members are longshoremen and machinists; schoolteachers and
mechanics; war veterans and ex-gang members. For decades, they have congregated under a common
goal of liberty, brotherhood, and unrestricted admission to the roadways of Southern California. Club
members have earned the respect of their peers and been branded criminals by local and federal
authorities.
Filmed between 2011 and 2014, Take None Give None bears witness to some of the Chosen Few’s most
turbulent years when changes in leadership threatened the club’s stability and a crackdown by federal
and local law enforcement resulted in raids on their storied clubhouse at 108th Street and Broadway in
South Central Los Angeles.
Fascinated by the cultures of East LA & South Central, Gusmano Cesaretti has documented the
neighborhoods of Los Angeles since 1970. In 2011, he partnered with photographer Kurt Mangum and a
team of professional cinematographers to create an in-depth portrait of this community of bikers in South
Central. Take None Give None offers access to places where outsiders aren’t welcome; nighttime rides
through LA’s expansive freeway system and inside the club’s hallowed clubhouse, located in the shadows
of the Watts Towers. Eschewing voiceover narration, the documentary allows the voices of the club to
speak freely and offers a ground level, unfiltered and unbiased look at what it means to be one of the
Chosen Few.
Take None Give None was Directed by Gusmano Cesaretti and Co-Directed Kurt Mangum. It was
produced by Bruno Sère, Gusmano Cesaretti and Kurt Mangum. The film has a running time of 1 hour 22
minutes and is not rated by the MPAA.
For more information, go to: TAKENONEGIVENONETHEFILM.COM