Director Ramin Barani celebrates human resilience and here harshness intermingles with joy in a film that is as clear-eyed as it is poetic.Synopsis Chop Shop
12-year-old youth and his older sister live in the no-man’s land that is known as the Iron Triangle: a 20-block stretch of junkyards and chop shops (where stolen cars are dismantled for parts), overshadowed by Shea Stadium’s giant billboard : “Make Dreams Happen.” Young Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco) lives and works in an auto-body shop, apprenticing as a mechanic and hustling clients for his no-nonsense boss. With a mixture of childlike naivete and adult ambition, he obsessively saves money to buy a mobile-food van as he and his sister Isamar (Isamar Gonzales) dream about running a small business of their own.
Cast: Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata, Ahmad Razvi
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Genres: Drama, Childhood Drama
Opened February 27, 2008 Runtime:1 hr. 25 min.
Cast:
Alejandro Polanco Ale
Isamar Gonzales Isamar
Writers: Bahareh Azimi, Ramin Bahrani
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