Fight for Life
Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) is a frustrated, uncompromising inner city girl whose preferred form of conflict resolution is violence. Everyone is a potential foe, even her boyfriend and father. Angered by the injustice of her father supporting arty brother's boxing but flatly excluding her, Diana self-funds her boxing. Life gets more complicated when she falls for fellow feather-weight Adrian (Santiago Douglas) and forms a complicated, aggressively taut relationship intertwined with her attempts to prove herself in a masculine milieu....
Film: Loach's Bread & Butter
"Bread and Roses is a story about the most marginalised of LA communities daring to take on their corporate bosses against all odds". A little contrived? Do not be put off. Like a team of Pickford's men dressed as clowns, this film both moves you and manages to make you laugh. The story revolves around two Mexican sisters, Maya and Rosa, who work as cleaners in a Los Angeles office block. After a chance meeting with Sam, a union activist, the two become embroiled in the 'Justice for Janitors' campaign. ...
Film: Oh Brother
This alternative gangster film is primarily a vehicle for 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, and also his first film set outside Japan. Takeshi plays a hardened Tokyo gangster forced to flee to LA after his 'family' loses a gang war at home. There he meets his kid brother, a corner drug pusher, but is unable to lie low: his background as a man of action forces him to first defend his brother's gang, and later to expand their territory by - surprisingly - killing their rivals....
Film: The Five Minute Film School
Lesson 2: Acting