Shot over the course of four years, Scott K. Rosenberg and Matt Ruskin's documentary about the development of a nonprofit program that uses music to keep troubled teenagers on the straight and narrow follows a familiar uplifting paradigm. But the story is compelling enough that even glib phrases like "healing through hip-hop" can't drag it down.
Christopher "Kazi" Rolle was abandoned by his mother in their native Bahamas and, after passing through a series of orphanages and foster homes, made his way to New York as a teenager to find her. Their reunion went badly and he wound up homeless in Brooklyn, later finding refuge in Art Start, a program founded by co...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
89 mins