Sean Baker regrets that he cannot travel to the Bay Area at this time, as previously planned.

Many festival films have dealt with African immigrants in Europe, but Sean Baker's powerhouse indie Prince of Broadway is as New York as hip-hop, Brooklyn slang, and knock-off Gucci handbags. The setting is Manhattan's cacophonous Garment District and its hustler underground, where honorable Ghanaian immigrant Lucky is dealing with flaky girlfriends, crooked cops, Puerto Rican hustlers, Armenian bosses, and a little boy who may or may not be his son. Inspired by the street-level immediacy of the Dardenne brothers and the baroquely verbalized cityscapes of Taxi Driver–era Scorsese, director Sean Baker (codirector of the similarly urban-roughhouse Take Out, and creator of cult TV series Greg the Bunny) uses the on-the-fly freedom of the digital aesthetic-skeletal crew, little equipment, improvisational filming-to create a true “New York film,” shot through with the banter, gestures, and aesthetics of urban American life and its African immigrant underground. Winner of the L.A. Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and the Special Jury Award from Locarno.