Our Mission
Venice Beach Love Stories
Venice Beach Love Stories is a documentary series by Kerry Candaele that enters into the complexity of Los Angeles's most mythologized neighborhood—not through statistics, but through the lives of five people whose stories carry the truth of this place.
For starters, we find a Chilean muralist who turns walls into testimony. A community elder and activist preserving Oakwood's history. A young skateboarder carrying forward Dogtown's legacy. A zoot-suit-wearing Latino whose daily dress is an act of cultural resilience, and an African-American local who keeps Venice moving with his Bicycle Whisperer moving repair shop.
A Neighborhood of Collisions
Venice Beach has always been a vision built on shifting sand. Founded in 1905 by tobacco magnate Abbot Kinney, it was imagined as a "Venice of America."
Today, gentrification is the tide reshaping everything. Multi-million-dollar homes rise beside modest cottages. Families who anchored the community for generations are pushed out.
