Exclusive Clip From Keith Miller’s Five StarPosted by Wilson Morales
July 23, 2015
Coming out this week is the drama ‘Five Star,’ written and directed by Keith Miller (Welcome to Pine Hill). The film marks the debut for stars James ‘Primo’ Grant and John Diaz.
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film and in reality—the streets of Brooklyn are all Primo has ever known. While John questions whether or not to enter into this life, Primo must decide whether to leave it all behind as he vows to become a better husband and father.
Set during those New York summer weeks where the stifling heat seems to encase everything, Five Star plunges into gang culture with searing intensity. Director Keith Miller observes the lives of these two men with a quiet yet pointed distance, carefully eschewing worn clichés through its unflinching focus. Distinctions between fiction and real life remain intentionally ambiguous, allowing the story of these two men to resonate beyond the streets, as they face the question of what it means to be a man.
XLrator Media will be releasing FIVE STAR in Theaters On July 24 in NY, On 31st in LA, and On VOD and iTunes on August 4.
Clip – Primo
