The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend, as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the street.
"Vlada Goes to London" is a short student film exploring the strong-willed Vlada on her night shift ...
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...
Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedd...
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...
When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds hersel...
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...
The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular ...
Two men who do not know each other: Ertan, a 35-year-old ex-convict who is trying to make amends for...
A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a...
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himsel...
Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerin...
Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hi...
The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco...
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South S...
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After...
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manag...
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go b...
A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensa...
Ryan and Kevin and their crew from Los Angeles are hired by U.S. Interpol to be matched up against t...