"Scrappy" will have its Portuguese premiere and rep the USA in the Porto7 Film Festival in Porto, Portugal June 14-18, 2017. Porto is a special place for producer/director Dawn Westlake who made her very first film, "Mini Driver Project", in Porto in 2000.

"Scrappy" is based on the Studs Terkel Humanities Award-winning poem by the director's father, Donald G. Westlake. It recounts an anecdote from his childhood when he had to stand up to the gun culture in the USA.

The film was shot on Canon's C300 in Pine Mountain, California by Pol Carrizo Vilarroig of Imatge Barcelona. He also edited. An original score was provided by GC Johnson of Acoustic Labs, a nominee for the 2016 Peer Raben Award at SoundTrack Cologne for his score on "Through the Pane", a collaboration with Dawn Westlake in 2015.

For more info on "Scrappy" and to see a trailer, please visit: http://dawnwestlake.com/rondecana/films/scrappy/index.html