Vibrantly engrossing and powerful, Academy Award(R) nominee "Colors Straight Up" offers a wholly inspiring look at the lives of inner-city children who are beating the odds through creative performance. Growing up with gunshots for lullabies on the strife-filled streets of Watts in downtown L.A., kids like Stanley, Oscar and LaToya are courageously re-discovering their talents and self-respect; as the backbone of an after-school performing arts group they are finding a second family and a safe place to dance, act and express their problems. Affectionately directed by award winning filmmaker Michele Ohayon, "Colors Straight Up" follows this spirited collective throughout a year of obstacles and successes, laughs and tears, dances and funerals, providing unusually intimate depth into their personal and emotional struggles.

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