The Weinstein Co. picked up Ryan Coogler‘s Fruitvale Station out of Sundance and is taking it to the 2013 Cannes Film Festival as one of the films in the Un Certain Regard selection and today a poster has premiered online for the feature.
The film stars Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) as Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who loved his friends, was generous to strangers, and had a hard time telling the truth to the mother of his beautiful daughter. He was scared and courageous and charming and raw, and as human as the community he was part of. That community paid attention to him, shouted on his behalf, and filmed him with their cell phones when BART officers, who were strong, intimidated, and acting in the way they thought they were supposed to behave around people like Oscar, shot him in cold blood at the Fruitvale subway stop on New Year’s Day in 2009.
Following its Cannes showing, Fruitvale Station will be released on July 26. Check out the poster below. [HuffPo]
