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GUEST: Rotimi Rainwater, film maker

“SP!T,” is a new documentary about slam poetry from filmmaker Rotimi Rainwater. The film focuses on four poets from New York and Los Angeles competing in a National Poetry Slam competition. The documentary highlights the lives of poets and what inspires them to write. “SP!T,” also explores the connections between the world of hip-hop and spoken word poetry. Rainwater’s film was an official selection of the 2006 Pan African Film Festival where it won the “Executive Directors Choice” award. It is also an official selection in the Silverlake International Film Festival.

For more information, visit www.spitthemovie.com.

Sp!t will be showing on Sunday March 26th at 7 pm, and Tuesday March 29th at 7:45 pm, at the Arclight Cinemas, 6360 West Sunset Blvd. For more information, visit www.silverlakefilmfestival.org.