#13. Gun Hill Road – Rashaad Ernesto Green
You can always count on Sundance to include a shot in one of the five boroughs set drama that typically avoids Manhattan. If Rashaad Ernesto Green’s (see pic above) debut lands in Park City, it’ll be representing the tough streets located in the Bronx. Selected for the 2010 Tribeca All Access Program, Gun Hill Road was a recipient of the 2009 Spike Lee Fellowship, and this fall, was selected for the 2010 IFP Project Forum. Among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces list, this would be Green’s second trip to the festival, following the Sundance selected short, 2009’s Choices. U.S Dramatic Competition category would be the most logical category with a possible follow-up at New Directors/New Films.
This follows Enrique (Esai Morales), a street-hardened product of the Bronx who is released from prison after three years. He returns to an estranged wife striving to end an affair and to his teenage son Michael (Harmony Santana), whose sexual identity is evolving. As Michael resists his father’s pressure to become ‘the kind of man men are supposed to be,’ Enrique grapples with the building tension within, knowing if he snaps, he will be sent back into the system and away from his family indefinitely.
* Producer: Michelle-Anne M. Small
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