{"id":11927,"date":"2017-04-12T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11927"},"modified":"2017-04-07T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:04:20","slug":"step-2017-amanda-lipitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11927","title":{"rendered":"Step (2017, Amanda Lipitz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We closed True\/False fest with a crowd-pleaser (literally, there was spontaneous mid-film applause) about high school step-dance teammates in their senior year.  Can they overcome poverty challenges at home, excel at their school work, get accepted into college and win the coveted state championship while growing as people and taking Black Lives Matter concepts to heart?  Yes!  Katy&#8217;s only reservation is that it&#8217;s an advertisement for charter schools at a time when they&#8217;re politically contentious.  It&#8217;s far from the most structurally or artistically interesting movie we saw at the festival, but the girls are wonderful, and we were treated to a pre-film live dance and a post-film Q&#038;A, which the excitable director beamed into via Skype.  Enormously good vibes all around.<\/p>\n<p><em>The same promo image everyone is using:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/step.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nThat wraps our True\/False 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musicians seen:<\/strong><br \/>\n13 Strings and a 2 Dollar Bill<br \/>\nMirah<br \/>\nPrahlad<br \/>\nOpen Mike Eagle<br \/>\nJesse and Forever<br \/>\nMary Lattimore<br \/>\nUS Girls<br \/>\nThanya Iyer<br \/>\nVery Be Careful (three times!)<br \/>\nTravis McFarlane<br \/>\nBella Donna<br \/>\nDeQn Sue<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good Food and Drink (abridged):<\/strong><br \/>\nApples and sausage on a waffle at Cafe Berlin<br \/>\nPierogies at Cafe Poland<br \/>\nPizza and burrata at Midici<br \/>\nExcel wine-barrel saison, and Boss tacos at Craft Beer Cellar<br \/>\nRock Bridge cinnamon imperial milk stout on cask at International Tap House<br \/>\nDouble rye IPA and cold nachos (but good service) at Broadway Brewery<br \/>\nPretzels and an array of belgian ales at G\u00fcnter Hans<br \/>\nCast Iron brown ale and a reuben at Uprise Bakery<br \/>\nBeet juice and a breakfast burrito at Main Squeeze<br \/>\nQuinoa Benedict and strange coffee at Nourish<br \/>\nThai slice at Pizza Tree<br \/>\nMushroom fries, taro chips and a spicy sour at Room 38<br \/>\nand a Lagunitas at Bier Station Kansas City (on the way)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We closed True\/False fest with a crowd-pleaser (literally, there was spontaneous mid-film applause) about high school step-dance teammates in their senior year. Can they overcome poverty challenges at home, excel at their school work, get accepted into college and win the coveted state championship while growing as people and taking Black Lives Matter concepts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2252,236,93,2245],"class_list":["post-11927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-black-lives","tag-dance","tag-documentary","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11955,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927\/revisions\/11955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}