STRAIGHT OUT THE WEST, A HOOD DRAMA SERIES CALLED "THE NEST"

‘THE NEST’
A HOOD DRAMA SERIES
FROM THE STREETS OF WATTS, CA,
Directed by Semaje Turnage

Director Semaje Turnage releases the hood drama series “The Nest” on November 22nd, 2015.

“The Nest” is slated as a 30 minute weekly series, set in Watts California a tiny neighborhood in Los Angeles. This area is noted for the Watts Towers and the 1965 Watts Riots. Where youth gangs, housing projects and crime is a staple of life while growing up in this densely populated neighborhood. Residents call this place ‘ The Ghetto Birds Nest’.

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Synopsis

The LA sheriff’s helicopter circles this neighborhood making the sound of the blades chopping the air above a soundtrack to the characters lives. A gang war is sparked by a robbery and murder of a beloved gang leader and the dominoes fall as lives hang in the balance. OG Rider Black narrates you through this vivid world of skewed morals from a prison cell.

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The Show

We begin each show from the inside of a jail cell with a narration told documentary style by Tyrone, who is angry and as harsh as they come. He has a street smartness that is uncommon and he reads a lot as a result of being in jail. His anger at the system gets the best of him at times as he tells the story from his jaded point of view. And we see how his brother Earl has many of his traits but fights against his nature as he is engage in the thug life. As the show on folds and we see the raw way the story is told and the very real nature of life in the hood, we wonder how Earl will actually get away from this life in the hood and if that life will suck him in like the vortex of drain sucking everything down with it.

We follow Earl as he wonders where his choices lie. Perhaps after all we don’t choose our lives at all, our lives choose us. So now with the void of power, while Tyrone is in jail we see an upcoming turf war that will force him to choose between his new life or his family. The Nest… a riveting and shockingly realistic depiction of the gangster life in the ‘hood, and those who want no parts of it.