Official Selection ~ Sundance Film Festival

"Takes the prize with kick-ass dancing and on-the-mark acting!"
- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY

“Spectacular!  It’s the sort of film that sends you home with a spring in your step”
- Matt Zoller Seitz, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"…it has energy and bravado…"
- David Denby, THE NEW YORKER

"…urgent and convincing and alive!"
- Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times

Raya has been attending a prestigious private school for the past several years but now, money is tight and her parent can no longer afford the tuition. She’s been told that she’s being kicked out. In her old neighborhood again – Toronto’s Jane & Finch - and back in her old school Raya decides to go on a mission.  She’s going to find the money to pay back the tuition her parents owe and work hard at school to try and get a scholarship that will allow her to return to the hallowed halls of the Seaton Academy -- as far away from the projects as she can get.

Things take a turn and get complicated when Raya decides to join a STEP dance crew to try and raise the money she needs to help her parents out.  Raya enters reluctantly at first into the world of step.  This is a world that requires all of you, not just some of you.… She’s has to deal with everything at once - old rivalries, old boyfriends, school, scholarships and dancing. She’s forced to hide her dancing from her mother, who believes that this world leads to nothing but trouble.  Slowly Raya gets drawn in, falls in love, and loses her way and is forced to confront what she really wants and who she wants to become.