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- Chop shop [videorecording] / by Azimi, Bahareh,screenwriter.; Bahrani, Ramin,film director,screenwriter,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)558426; Brody, Jeb,film producer.; Gonzales, Isamar,actor.; Muskat, Lisa,film producer.; Polanco, Alejandro,actor.; Razvi, Ahmad,actor.; Simmonds, Michael,cinematographer.; Sowulski, Rob,actor.; Turtletaub, Marc,film producer.(CARDINAL)832660; Zapata, Carlos,actor.; Big Beach (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)832708; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Muskat Filmed Properties,production company.; Noruz Films (Firm),production company.;
Director of photography, Michael Simmonds; ; music, M. Lo.Isamar Gonzales, Alejandro Polanco, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata, Ahmad Razvi, Anthony Felton."For his acclaimed follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen: Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being redeveloped off the map. It's within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old Ale (Alejandro Polanco) must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for himself and his sister (Isamar Gonzales), even as their tenuous circumstances force each to compete with other struggling people and make desperate decisions. A deeply human story of a fierce but fragile sibling bond being tested by hardscrabble reality, Chop Shop tempers its sobering authenticity with flights of lyricism and hope"--ContainerRating: Not rated.DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); 5.1 Dolby Digital.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Automobile graveyards; Orphans; Siblings; Street children;
- Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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