INDEPENDENT LENS: P-Star Rising

• February 9, 2010

Sunday, February 14 at 10:30 p.m.

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At age nine, Priscilla, a precocious little girl, tells her single-father, Jesse, "I am going to become a rapper and fulfill your dreams of succeeding in the music business." Moved by Priscilla’s, or P-Star’s, passion and impressed with her talent and charisma, he begins to teach her all he knows about rapping. Suddenly, this father-daughter duo goes from a one-bedroom shelter in Harlem to a four-bedroom apartment, from food stamps to shopping sprees, from rapping on street corners to sold-out night clubs. But in the efforts to make her dad proud, Priscilla struggles to remain a child and finds herself trapped in a world of people twice her size and four times her age and doesn’t know whom to trust. The ride has just begun. By Gabriel Noble.