OT: Our Town (2002)
- Starring:
- Catherine Borek, Karen Greene, (more)
- Director(s):
- Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Category:
- Music & Performing Arts, Documentary, Special Interest
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The Los Angeles community of Compton has become infamous thanks to news reports and rap music lyrics that have portrayed it as an African-American neighborhood brought to the edge of destruction by corruption and black-on-black crime. In 2003, a handful of students and teachers at Compton's Dominguez High School decided to do something that hadn't happened at the school in more than 20 years -- put on a play. When it became obvious that the financially strapped school (which had recently canceled its football program) couldn't provide a budget for sets or costumes, the students did what money-conscious high-school theater departments have been doing for decades -- they staged Thornton Wilder's Our Town, a drama commonly performed without the use of sets or large props. But what would Wilder's allegorical story of life in a small turn-of-the-century Midwestern hamlet mean to kids in Compton? And would the inexperienced students and faculty be able to bring it off? OT: Our Town is a documentary which looks at Dominguez High's brave experiment and the people who struggled to make it happen. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 77 mins
Complete Cast:
- Director(s):
- Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Producer(s):
- Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Categories:
- Special Interest, Documentary, Music & Performing Arts
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- 2003 - New York International Latino Film Fest - Best Documentary
