<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/22e40e8d-9e23-4d64-80ef-10c499d3eee1/650269CE-E7DD-414A-BE2F-299C1D991E2E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://jezebel.com/5377421/excuse-my-gangsta-ways-is-both-illuminating-and-uplifting" href="http://jezebel.com/5377421/excuse-my-gangsta-ways-is-both-illuminating-and-uplifting" style="font-size: 11px;">jezebel.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5377421/excuse-my-gangsta-ways-is-both-illuminating-and-uplifting"><P><A href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jezebel/2009/10/Excuse_Davina_Grandma_gal.jpg" rel="lytebox"><IMG width="500" class="left image500" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/39/2009/10/500x_Excuse_Davina_Grandma_gal.jpg" /></A>From the age of twelve to the age of seventeen, <A href="http://jezebel.com/tag/davina-wan/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged DAVINA WAN" class="autolink">Davina Wan</A> was in a gang. <EM><A href="http://jezebel.com/tag/excuse-my-gangsta-ways/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged EXCUSE MY GANGSTA WAYS" class="autolink">Excuse My Gangsta Ways</A></EM> reflects on a life in which a young girl could attend 35 funerals before the age of eighteen.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5377421/excuse-my-gangsta-ways-is-both-illuminating-and-uplifting"><P>For most of us, wedding cakes and caps and gowns mark our life's milestones. For D. Wan, it is switchblades and dog tags. Excuse My Gangsta Ways, a documentary by Corinne E. Manabat, explores the life of Wan, a Chinese American from New York's Lower East Side, and her transition from a life of gang violence to a "normal" life. Visually poetic and uncompromising in its portrayal of gang culture, Excuse My Gangsta Ways uses interviews with Wan and her family to reach beyond stereotypes of urban gang members and America's "model minority." We will take a look at the person she was and the person she has become, where fate and inspiration endure.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5377421/excuse-my-gangsta-ways-is-both-illuminating-and-uplifting"><P>When I saw the short film at this year's DC APA Film Festival, I was blown away at the level of honesty and pain captured in a scant fifteen minutes.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/650269CE-E7DD-414A-BE2F-299C1D991E2E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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