The film follows an illiterate African-American teenager from abuse by her parents to her enrollment in special education program, on “a journey from pain and powerlessness to self-respect and determination.”
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The US film Precious from director Lee Daniels won the highest award at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. Based on the novel Push by the author Sapphire, Precious was honoured with the Cadillac People’s Choice Award by the festival as “vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome.”
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This film has won Award after Award and even went through a Title Change , now can someone inform us as to when this film will open to the Public! If it doesn’t open soon it will be a film 3 years old with no Audience.
Comment by indigenous afrodescendant — September 20, 2009