Running Into Me
In Running Into Me, Vickie Tanner tells the compelling story of her remarkable struggle to defy the odds and succeed. Raised in a rough Compton CA neighborhood, she was surrounded by a culture which she both embraced and rejected. Many of the men in her family were incarcerated - and she wasn't going to take that route. She was ridiculed by her family for some of the conventions she observed and the choices she made. Tanner plays various characters from her troubled past,weaving interviews with teenagers through the story, and takes the audience on an odyssey into the minds of young people, while she paints a vivid and insightful portrait of her own remarkable journey.
Running Into Me runs 1 hour 15 minutes