Un vendedor telefónico con problemas de autoestima descubre la clave para el éxito en el negocio. Pero cuando empieza a subir escalones en la compañía, sus amigos activistas denuncian prácticas laborales injustas.
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) es el gerente general del equipo de béisbol Atléticos de Oakland, que acaba de perder otra temporada más. Decidido a relanzar el equipo, y con la ayuda del joven economista Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), utilizará las estadísticas de éste para fichar a los jugadores que cree más oportunos. Un método que no es compartido por sus compañeros, ni por el entrenador del equipo Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Dos bandas (Asiática y afroamericana) enzarzadas en una "guerra de mafias" están disputándose el control de los muelles. La situación se vuelve aún más peligrosa cuando el hijo del capo asiático es asesinado; es entonces cuando su hermano Han, ex policía encarcelado en Hong Kong, escapa de la cárcel para vengar su muerte, convirtiéndose él en objetivo de las bandas, lo que le lleva a declarar la guerra por su cuenta.
Oakland, California. El joven afroamericano Oscar Grant se encuentra con familiares, amigos, enemigos y desconocidos antes de enfrentarse a su destino en el andén de la estación de Fruitvale, en las primeras horas de la mañana del día de Año Nuevo de 2009.
Basada en hechos reales, narra la historia de Bob Ladouceur, entrenador de fútbol de De La Salle High School y su asistente coach Terry Eidson que se encargó de preparar a sus jugadores y poner al día a la plantilla de una manera espectacular. Un equipo roto sin ningún tipo de ambición en todo el equipo, así se encontró el equipo el entrenador Ladouceur. Por algún tipo de motivo encontró a unos chavales con talento desaprovechado a los que debería convertir en hombres ansiosos por lograr la victoria y por machacar a sus rivales sin piedad ninguna. Fueron duros comienzos, aunque consiguió 151 triunfos consecutivos desde 1.992 hasta 2003, logrando el record de victorias conseguidas por cualquier equipo de fútbol en la historia.
A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
In 1987 Oakland, a mysterious force guides The Town’s underdogs in four interconnected tales: teen punks defend their turf against Nazi skinheads, a rap duo battles for hip-hop immortality, a weary henchman gets a shot at redemption, and an NBA All-Star settles the score.
An Oakland mayoral candidate struggles to figure out her personal and professional lives.
A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.
A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.
Dave and Joe, just evicted from their Oakland apartment, turn to stealing cars and dealing Fluoride to make their financial ends meet. One night they find Summer Hayes, star of a popular 1990's teen soap, in the trunk of a stolen automobile. Shoot-outs, car chases, and overdoses ensue. In the Fluoride heightened world of "Medias Res", nothing is what it at first appears to be.
Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. In 1992 he was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank robbery when his lyrics were used against him in court. He left prison with a new lease on life, founded an independent record company, and then was murdered just when he began to emerge as a star. For the first time ever, his mother Wanda reveals the true experiences of a hip-hop legend.
A love song to the artists, dance, music, slang, clothes and, most importantly of all, the people who came of age during the Hyphy Movement. We were there, we were hyphy.
Method Sampling is explored through the works of a hip-hop orchestra, a disabled choreographer, a self-taught Black mycologist, a tiny house builder and a critical theorist.
A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.
Through fly-on-the-wall footage and insightful interviews, director ShakaJamal chronicles the effort to create a first-of-its-kind yoga and mindfulness program for Oakland Unified School District middle schools. Aimed at expanding students’ awareness and refining their goals, the initiative has been a unique success, and I Am Hope offers a poignant portrait of the day-to-day struggles of diverse young people united in their desire to pursue big dreams.
When Ollie’s mother is attacked by a monster hiding in the depths of Lake Merritt, he sets out on a mission to find her—discovering instead a hidden network of monster-hunters tasked with protecting Oakland from its own dark underbelly.