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CHRISTIANS AND CANNIBALS is the story of a family’s journey from the villages of American Samoa to the ghettos of California. In search of opportunity, Rodney Asuega is adopted by his uncle and brought from Pago Pago, American Samoa to the public housing projects of the Bay Area. As a young man, he begins his path with fifty dollars’ worth of crack cocaine, eventually rising to become one of the Bay's most notorious hustlers.
Bare, discordant, and profoundly vulnerable, the film unfolds as a series of moving portraits, tracing the family’s intertwined lives and offering a meditation on redemption and the quiet power of grace.
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CHRISTIANS AND CANNIBALS is the story of a family’s journey from the villages of American Samoa to the ghettos of California. In search of opportunity, Rodney Asuega is adopted by his uncle and brought from Pago Pago, American Samoa to the public housing projects of the Bay Area. As a young man, he begins his path with fifty dollars’ worth of crack cocaine, eventually rising to become one of the Bay's most notorious hustlers.
Bare, discordant, and profoundly vulnerable, the film unfolds as a series of moving portraits, tracing the family’s intertwined lives and offering a meditation on redemption and the quiet power of grace.
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