Pressure Cooker is premiering tomorrow at the LA Film Festival.

This inspiring and thrilling documentary profiles the lives of three Northeast Philadelphia high school seniors, each from different backgrounds with unique hardships, but with the shared goal of winning a citywide cooking competition for a scholarship to one of the country’s best culinary schools. Their unlikely hero is the unorthodox teacher, Mrs. Stephenson, who tests their limits and inspires their personal growth in the classroom and at home.

Are you in Los Angeles? Join us for a screening!

Saturday, June 21st 7:30pm
Mann Festival Theatre

Tuesday, June 24th 7:15pm
The Landmark

Wednesday, June 25th 1:45pm
The Regent

Get more information on the film and the screenings at the LA Film Festival website.

takepart with the Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP).

Common has been named the 2008 Artist in Residence for the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival, a festival that also happens to be going green this year. Common doesn’t act too often (though he was pretty awesome in Smokin’ Aces), but I wanted to share what might be the best song he’s ever put out.

Yes, that was awesome. According to The Hip Hop Consign, as Artist in Residence, Common has programmed a slate of films that have inspired his work (Pulp Fiction and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind among them). Also, he appears in Wanted, the opening night film for the festival.

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