Forest Whitaker

Can the Sundance Channel’s Brick City inspire change in America’s grittiest inner cities? The panel the show assembled for Friday’s Television Critics Association press tour suggests it’s possible: It featured members of the rival Crips and Bloods gang sharing the stage with a police director from Newark, N.J., where the documentary is set.

Sundance is presenting Brick City as a street-level portrayal of inner city life that offers more nuance and optimism than HBO’s The Wire. Executive produced by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, it features Newark’s mayor, Cory Booker, whose campaign to unseat Newark’s previous mayor was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Street Fight.

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