Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival 2008

Justin and Dana, white, young and naïve, move to Brooklyn to make a documentary about inner city life. Dana follows Thomas, a black teenager poised to rise above the pitfalls of ghetto life. Justin documents the lives of two NYPD officers, Dan Masterson and Alex Mora. Masterson is a decorated cop with a jaded view of inner-city culture. Mora is an idealistic, Latin-America rookie trying to change the world. As the filming progresses, emotions and violence get in the way of the film makers’ objectivity, until they become active participants in the lives of those whom they were observing through the lens.