Hollywood Black Film Festival 2008

The heroic story of America's first shock-jock, Petey Greene was a black man in a white man's world during a time of civil unrest in our nation's capital. Petey overcame poverty, drug addiction and a prison sentence for armed robbery by 'telling it like it is' on his raw uncensored radio and television shows in the late 60's and 70's. His explosive language and brash style shocked the world as Petey battled both the system and his own demons on the journey to becoming a leading activist during some of our country's most tumultuous years. The film features scenes from 'Petey Greene's Washington' that have not been seen in 25 years, including one show with an up and coming deejay named Howard Stern. Don Cheadle, who played Petey in the feature Talk To Me, narrates this documentary.

Set amidst the vast landscape of South Los Angeles, Crenshaw Nights is the story of Frank 'Jupiter' Johnson (Vondi Curtis-Hall, Talk to Me), an ex-con trying to walk the straight and narrow, working for a local bail bondsman hunting criminals down that fail to appear for their court dates. Jupiter's steady world of fast-deals and tricky seizures gets thrown in upheaval when an old friend and prison mentor, Irwin Mosely, approaches him for help with a serious problem involving the closing of his neighborhood business, a bookstore that's survived twenty years.Not one to flinch in the face of danger, Jupiter decides to help his old friend, but what starts as a series of calculated street moves, quickly escalates into a tangled web of deceit, and corruption, involving a millionaire property owner, a wild stick-up crew, a deceptive beauty with a shadowy past, and a ruthless bookie. Jupiter must navigate the labyrinth of this treacherous, hard-boiled world, where one false step could prove to be fatal...