B-Girl - Preview & competition
Preview by Jack Foley
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: Lady Jules, Behind The B-Girl; Wesley Jonathan, ‘Carlos’; The Battle; B-Boy Profiles: Flipz, Steelo, Remedy; Bloopers Reel; Dance Auditions.
ON OCTOBER 12, 2009 let battle commence when B-GIRL is released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Introducing Jules ‘Lady Jules’ Urich (MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew’s Beat Freaks, You Got Served, Step Up 2), Wesley Jonathan (Roll Bounce, Steppin: The Movie) and Ivan “Flipz” Velez (Stomp The Yard, Honey), B-GIRL features some of the biggest and best b-boys in the world today, including FleaRock, Legacy, Remedy, Steelo, and many, many more.
Angel (Jules Urich) is never more alive than when she’s dancing and break-dance is her chosen style. It’s all about battling – trying to out-dance an opponent. She has all the moves, is brave, strong, a little bit reckless and one of the hottest b-girls on the Brooklyn scene.
However, a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend Hector leaves her best friend dead and Angel fighting for her life.
Becoming a weak, insecure shell of her former self, Angel runs in fear and anger from everything and everyone, including herself, and moves across the country to her mother’s house in Los Angeles.
Isolated in LA with no friends, no community and no dance, her mother Gabby becomes terrified that dancing will destroy Angel if she ever starts again. Dancing is all Angel has and she is lost without it.
Her grandmother, Crescencia de Santiago, recommends that she visit a therapy group at a local church to try and overcome her fear. Angel goes to the church grudgingly, but finds something unexpected: in the basement is an open break-dance practice session for East LA kids.
Unable to get the images of the dancers out of her head and, after meeting Carlos (Wesley Jonathan), a local teacher and former b-boy, she steels her courage and returns to the church. She earns an invite to join their crew and begins to dance again.
Angel realizes that her life has become driven by fear; she and her mother are both scared and alone and taking it out in the worst place – on each other. Gabby realizes how fundamental dance is to Angel’s life, and the two women find a common ground – and Angel finds a place in her new home. She begins to trust again. Then she takes her strength onto the dance floor…
If you liked You Got Served, Stomp The Yard, Step Up and Save The Last Dance, then you’ll love B-GIRL.
Win B-GIRL on DVD
To celebrate the release of B-GIRL on DVD, IndieLondon is offering readers the chance to win 1 of 3 copies of the DVD. Simply answer the following question…
Q. Who plays Angel in B-GIRL?
Simply send the answer to B-GIRL competition competition and include your name, address, telephone number and email
B-Girl is © 2009 B-Girl LLC. All Rights Reserved © 2009 Anchor Bay Entertainment
Certificate: 12
UK DVD Release: October 12, 2009