“Inventing L.A.
The Chandlers and
Their Times"
a California Documentary Project film

Director: Peter Jones

This documentary, by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jones, tells the story of the Chandler family, who helped shape the City of Los Angeles through the newspaper it owned: The Los Angeles Times.

“Everything that goes into making a city function as an entity of power—real estate, development, transportation—the Times was at the center of it.”

    — Ruben Martinez

“Inventing L.A.” premieres nationally on PBS on October 5, 2009.

Links:

• Read an interview with the filmmaker in the Council’s newsletter.
  
  
• Visit the filmmaker’s website
  
  
• Read a revies in Variety
  
  
• The L.A. Times’ Patrick Goldstein on “Inventing L.A.”