CROSSTOWN World Premiere in Santa Barbara, Directed by Miriam Kruishoop

  Some movies are important. Some movies are really good. Miriam Kruishoop’s Crosstown is both. Last week the film had its world premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. It is the story of an illegal immigrant family in LA. I sighed in exasperation, I got the chills, I cried. I have not been this moved by a film since seeing Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere last summer. "Crosstown is a story about two marginalized families dealing with the brutal realities about what ...