Kevin Epps Fundraiser: Straight Outta Hunters Point

A Fundraiser for filmmaker, Kevin Epps!

Kevin and special guests after the film!

A rare glimpse from the inside at the daily racial, economic, and environmental issues confronting the African American residents of San Francisco’s Bayview/Hunters Point districts (circa 2001). This documentary depicts hip-hop culture in its rawest, uncut form: from the history of this once-thriving black community, built military-barrack-style overlooking the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site) and PG&E’s toxic wastelands, to the truth behind the alleged gang-related “Rap Wars.”–Container.

Kevin Epps directs and hosts the “hardcore hip-hop documentary” Straight Outta Hunters’ Point. This searing, deeply troubling program carries the audience to the poverty, crime, and grunge-infested borough of Hunter’s Point, a neighborhood of the mostly-affluent San Francisco, California. Epps reveals how the ‘rap battles’ conducted by cutthroat street gangstas have torn this already-struggling community to bloody shreds – with slim odds for a socioeconomic rebound. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi