BloomScreen Presents: Off and Running October 5, 2010

BloomScreen Presents: Off and Running (2009, 76 min.), Nicole Opper
Tuesday, October 10th // 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Off and Running tells the story of Brooklyn teenager Avery, a track star with a bright future. She is the adopted African-American child of white Jewish lesbians. Her older brother is black and Puerto Rican and her younger brother is Korean. Though it may not look typical, Avery’s household is like most American homes — unt...il Avery writes to her birth mother and the response throws her into crisis. She struggles over her “true” identity, the circumstances of her adoption and her estrangement from black culture. Just when it seems as if her life is unraveling, Avery decides to pick up the pieces and make sense of her identity, with inspiring results.

See the trailer here:
Official Website: http://offandrunningthefilm.com/

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award- winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS (www.pbs.org/pov).