March 13, 1998 • Page Image 92
…eINEntet In the second year, she started map- ping out the film, using only a video camera. Not until the third year did she begin filming in earnest, focusing on the lives, sorrows and triumphs of .six teen-agers. The centerpiece of the film is the group's production of the musical Watts Side Story, based on Romeo and Juliet by way of West Side Story — with the Crips and Bloods replacing the Montagues and Capulets and the Sharks and Jets. Th...…

















































