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    Fruitvale Station an American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. This film is based on the real life events that lead to the death of Oscar Grant.
This film debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S dramatic film. The film was also screened in the Un Certain Regrard section at 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film.

Fruitvale Station is based on the story of Oscar Grant III.  22 year old black man Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) is now trying hard to live a clean life and support his girlfriend Sophina ( Melonie Diaz)  and daughter Tatianna ( Ariana Neal). The flashbacks played throughout the movie reveal the last days in Oscars life. In his last days Oscar and his friends and friends take the train to San Francisco watch the fireworks on New Years Eve and on the way back home, he was involved in an altercation with the police that ended in  tragedy at Fruitvale BART Station which was witnessed by many people. In the early hours of Jan. 1,2009, unarmed and lying face down on a Subway platform in Oakland, California was shot by a white Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer. The incident was captured on video by onlookers. Ryan Coogler powerful and sensitive debut feature, which imaginatively reconstructs the last 24 hours of Oscar Grants life, flashing back from a horrifying snippet an actual cellphone video of the hectic moments before the shooting. The director inserts a flashback of the horrible shooting.