Fox Searchlight’s documentary Step has released its trailer and we finally get the first-look at the film that won hearts at the Sundance Film Festival. Amanda Lipitz’s Step focuses on a group of high-school step dancers at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. The documentary will especially focus on three high-school seniors as they prepare to step it up in a local dance competition.
Apart from the obvious attention to dance, the film also talks about the Black Lives Matter movement. The activist movement, which strongly protested against the death of Freddie Gray death while in the custody of Baltimore Police Department, will be an essential backdrop to the documentary.
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Amanda Lipitz (second from left) pictured with three high-school seniors of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, who will be the prime focus of the documentary.
Following the lives of Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger, Tayla Solomon, Gari McIntyre and Paula Dofat, the film was produced by Lipitz and Steven Cantor. The film was so influential that Fox Searchlight reportedly shelled out $4 million to purchase rights to the movie.
“They’re coming home to no lights. Not having food in the refrigerator—not having a refrigerator at all,” a woman says in the trailer. “But when they come to step practice, all of those things are erased out of their minds, so they can make it through life.” Step will be releasing on August 4, 2017.
