"Planet B-Boy" Makes U.S. Premiere, Chronicles World Break Dancing Championships
By Bryan Munson

New York, NY (March 28, 2008) – Directed by Benson Lee, "Planet B-Boy," might just be the latest edition to classic hip-hop film noir.  The film weaves its story around crews from 18 different countries as they compete in Germany for the title of world’s best b-boy crew.  From The San Francisco Chronicle:

…”The stories in "Planet B-Boy" might surprise some who view hip-hop as a destructive force. For a young white man in Paris, for instance, his involvement in break-dancing has forced his mother to come to grips with her admittedly retrograde opinions. "No one had ever thought that hip-hop could help the racist mother come to terms with the fact that she was racist, no one thought that the Korean father, a nationalist ... could find hip-hop to be a unifying thing.

"What really intrigued me was how socially and politically conscious the dancers were," Lee says. "It's what hip-hop is really about. When it started in the Bronx, these kids were basically ignored. The Bronx was burning and no one cared ... the kids needed to voice their opinion. It was the youth that created hip-hop, that's why it's so popular. It has transcended America and found a very, very important role in other countries. Hip-hop is everywhere now."”


That’s what the fuck I’m talking about!!!!  The film opened in the States for the first time in theaters last week in LA and NY, and is all over Killa Cali this Friday (TODAY) at Landmark's Lumiere Theatre, 1572 California Street in San Fran. 

For more information, pictures, kick ass vids and screenings, get over to their official website and get involved.  The below clip is an older trailer (from 2006), but it’s stupid ridic.  Check out Vegas putting it down: