Marcy Garriott Movies

While most people think of hip hop dancing as a New York phenomenon, as rap music has spread the hip hop message all over the world, "b-boy" dance crews can be found in every part of the United States. In Austin, Texas, dancer Romeo Navarro has been organizing street dancing competitions for over a decade, and dozens of talented young men can be found vying for respect in the dancer's circle on a regular basis. Inside The Circle is a documentary that looks at the hip-hop dance movement in Austin, and two of the scene's best dancers, Omar Davila and Josh Ayers. Both are talented, but Omar seems to better embody Romeo's philosophy that "If you can hold yourself down in battle, you can hold yourself down in life," and looks to be well on his way to making dancing a career. Josh, on the other hand, has had a few serious scrapes with the law, and it seems to be anyone's guess if he's headed for stardom or prison. Inside The Circle received its world premiere at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Filmmakers Clark and Jesse Lyda invite viewers to ponder how such core American values and rights as due process and presumption of innocence apply to immigrants by offering an illuminating look into the controversial T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a family detention center set up by the Bush administration in an attempt to end the so-called "catch and release" of undocumented migrants. Opened in May 2006 as a prototype family detention facility, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center is a former medium-security prison located in central Texas, and operated by CCA, the largest prison operator in the U.S.A.. There, immigrant children and their parents from across the globe must wait to discover whether they will ultimately be deported or granted asylum. Quietly opened with little fanfare in either the press or the public eye, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center came to the attention of immigration attorney Barbara Hines when many of the detainees contacted her seeking representation. The more Hines learned about the facility, the less happy she became with how it was being run. Shocked by the troubling conditions there, Hines teamed with Vanita Gupta of the ACLU and Michelle Brané of the Women's Refugee Commission to investigate the detention center and press charges. But Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) didn't respond well to the heat, and tried their hardest to dissuade the determined lawyers. Only through making their findings public, encouraging activists and media to get involved, and filing a historic lawsuit would Hines, Gupta, and Brané be able to encourage important changes in both policy and condition. This is the story of their fight to ensure that all people who enter America be granted the same inalienable human rights, regardless of whether they've already been granted citizenship or not. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi