By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Amanda Lipitz
Cast: Paula Dofat, Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger and Tayla Solomon.
Rating: Excellent.
Amanda Lipitz makes her directorial debut with “Step”, a great documentary that delivers very good results.
The movie focuses in group of high school dance girls in Baltimore. The type of dance that the girls perform is called Step.
This girls are filled with dreams and ambitions, specially the ones that is going to college despite of the financial situation that this girls are put in to.
This is a movie about dreamers who do anything to fulfill that dream with a unique form of art, which is through Dance.
“Step” is more than a documentary film. Is a movement that brings hope and delivers a strong message to people that you have to work really hard in order to get what you want.
The movie was original because it focused on a specific group and it was one conformed with unknowns.
The movies from this genre can have the tendency to focus on either a person or a subject but here it was different since it was targeted in a group of high school girls in Baltimore and how the struggled to reach their ultimate girls.
Also one of the things that made “Step” a unique documentary was the fact it was not fact on one person from the group, it was focused in all the girls of the dance girls and you see the families how are they struggling to get what they want to achieve.
And another thing that made “Step” special was the fact that it´s an original subject and this subject has never been dealed before.
You can see the families are struggling to make their daughters dream come true and this is the perfect example of how to illustrate me.
“Step” is a movie that will make a lot of noise and can be a serious contender for next year´s awards.
With that being said “Step” is one of the best movies of this year and I give a huge recommendation to it and for documentary lovers this is a movie that you cannot miss.