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an incarcerated black poet; he enjoyed
the opening night slot at Slamdance
this year with Brooklyn Babylon, a
black-Jewish "Romeo and Juliet"
inspired by the Song of Songs.
Set in Crown Heights, Brooklyn,
where black-Jewish tensions have
simmered since the riot of 1991, Sol,
a charismatic rapper ready to break
into the music business (hip-hop
MC Tariq Trotter) meets Sara (Karen
Goberman), a young Jewish beauty
ready to break free of her religious
background. Sparks fly.
The provocative pic brings Levin,
director of the video version of Anna
Deveare Smith's L.A.-riot saga,
Twilight: Los Angeles, back to his
Jewish roots.
"[As] the millennium was
approaching, I felt it was time to do
my Bible film, a hip-hop Solomon
and Sheba in the neighborhood
where my parents and grandparents
all grew up," he says. "In a way, it
completes my trilogy: Slam,
Whiteboys and Brooklyn Babylon."
In dramatic competition at
Sundance, the Yale- and Stanford-
educated writer-director Henry Bean
offers The Believer, starring Theresa
Russell and Billy Zane, based on the
1960s true story of an ex yeshiva
bother turned anti-Semite.
In real life, Danny Balint commit-
ted suicide the day the New York
Times printed an expose revealing he
was Jewish. In the movie, we meet
the 12-year-old Balint (Ryan
Gosling) arguing with his rabbis and
dodging gentile toughs on the street.
By the age of 22, he is a skinhead
and budding fascist leader. When the
court sentences him to "sensitivity
training" with elderly Holocaust sur-
vivors, his conflicting feelings set
him on the path to self-destruction.
While Balint was hiding his
Jewishness, "at the same time he was
compulsively revealing it," says Bean,
the screenwriter of Internal Affairs
and Enemy of the State.
"He would bring knishes back to
the Nazi headquarters and hang out
with girls who looked obviously
Jewish. The notion of somebody hid-
ing something and revealing it at the
same time fascinated me."
Sundance film awards will be pre-
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