Docs Not to Miss in 2010: P-STAR RISING

Is this any life for a kid?

Some of the things that happen in Gabriel Noble’s doc P-Star Rising:

9 year old Priscilla Diaz lives in a one room apartment with her father, Jesse, and her sister, Solsky.

Times are hard but the kid has boatloads of talent, and her dad used to be in the music biz, and he used to be somebody before a cocaine bust sent him away.

Pricilla’s mom was strung out for much of her early childhood, so Jesse knew that upon his release from jail had had to get full custody of his kids.

We join the story (in progress) as the kid signs a (bad) record deal.

Meanwhile an older sister, desperate for a mother, clings to her church, but can’t keep her grades from slipping.

Dad tries to manage P-Star’s career, but he fails. He wants the kid to be a RAP STAR.

P-STAR RISING is a doc so good, so tightly edited, and so well constructed that you forget it is a doc.