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Fruitvale Station is the debut film from director Ryan Coogler and produced by Forrest Whittaker. Here's the trailer.
It's based on the BART police shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland on New Year's Day 2009. Here is some video footage taken by witnesses' camera phones of the event. (Some of the footage is apparently used in the film.) Needless to say, the themes of race, class, and law-enforcement violence will be of interest to fans of The Wire.
Playing Oscar Grant is Michael B. Jordan, who played Wallace. Here's a powerful interview he did recently with Coogler on the Tavis Smiley show.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/25/fruitvale_ryan_cooglers_debut_film_on
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