Rize

Rize (2005)

A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came out of the low income neighborhoods of L.A.. Director David LaChapelle interviews each dance crew about how their unique dances evolved. A new and positive activity away from the drugs, guns, and gangs that ruled their neighborhood. A raw film about a growing sub-culture movements in America.

Date of release
2005-01-15
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (50)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Documentary
Director
David LaChapelle

Casting

Interesting facts

Rize is an American documentary film by David LaChapelle, starring Lil' C, Tommy the Clown and Miss Prissy. It documents urban culture and dancing competition surrounding two different forms, clowning and krumping. It released in Summer 2005 and produced by Lions Gate Films.

Production

The film Rize was written and directed by David LaChapelle. Working alongside LaChapelle were executive producers Ishbel Whitaker, Barry Peele, Ellen Jacobson-Clarke, Stavros Merjos, and Rebecca Skinner, but filmed in early-mid 2004. Rize focuses on the African-American communities of clowns and krumpers in South Central Los Angeles.

The film is set in the outskirts of South Central Los Angeles–areas such as Inglewood and Compton that have become synonymous in the American popular imagination with deviances of all kinds, due to representations in news media, music, and film. However, LaChapelle does not begin the film in the present day.

LaChapelle situates his film deliberately within a racially specific violence. The film is dedicated to a dancer named Quinesha (Lil Dimples) Dunford, who was killed with a 13-year old friend in a 2003 drive-by shooting, and not one of the dancers within the film is without a story like Quinesha's to tell.

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