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2007 • HD • Color • TRT 12:16

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Your name is everything..

Synopsis

The year is 1994... and Giuliani’s just swept into the mayor’s office, promising to clean up the big apple along the way. Graffiti writers, once a celebrated part of the underground, suddenly find themselves doggedly pursued by the vandal squad and generally regarded as the poster children for all things urban blight.

Enter Shayla johns. At 17, she is on the verge of doing what few graff writers before her have ever accomplished: going all city, getting up in every borough. Under the alias ‘Bug’ she has grown to near legendary status in the graff world, though few know her by face.

Her rise has not gone unnoticed though. Having made her way to the top of the vandal squad's wish list, she is finally caught the night before her 18th birthday, and given a clear choice from the powers that be: stop writing graffiti, or face certain jail time as an adult.

Abandoned by her best friend, challenged by a violent and bitter rival and facing jail time, Shayla summons up the courage to go it alone and finish a piece that might be her greatest work yet. But will her decision cost her everything? A look into the hidden world of the graffiti girl, Tags is at once a tribute to an art form and a story about finding yourself in the things you love.

	2007 • HD • Color • TRT 12:16 Logline Your name is everything.. Synopsis The year is 1994... and Giuliani’s just swept into the mayor’s office, promising to clean up the big apple along the way. Graffiti writers, once a celebrated part of the underground, suddenly find themselves doggedly pursued by the vandal squad and generally regarded as the poster children for all things urban blight. Enter Shayla johns. At 17, she is on the verge of doing what few graff writers before her have ever accomplished: going all city, getting up in every borough. Under the alias ‘Bug’ she has grown to near legendary status in the graff world, though few know her by face. Her rise has not gone unnoticed though. Having made her way to the top of the vandal squad's wish list, she is finally caught the night before her 18th birthday, and given a clear choice from the powers that be: stop writing graffiti, or face certain jail time as an adult. Abandoned by her best friend, challenged by a violent and bitter rival and facing jail time, Shayla summons up the courage to go it alone and finish a piece that might be her greatest work yet. But will her decision cost her everything? A look into the hidden world of the graffiti girl, Tags is at once a tribute to an art form and a story about finding yourself in the things you love.

	Credits
	Shayla Johns/Ladybug Serge Kazi Micro Delores Fairchild MTA Worker Lead Vandal Squad Detective Vandal Squad Partner Vandal Squad Runner Graffiti Clean-up Workers Graffiti Clean-up Workers Written and Directed by Producer Director of Photography 1st Assistant Director 2nd Assistant Director 1st Assistant Camera 2nd Assistant Camera Sound Mixer Boom Operator Script Supervisor Gaffer Best Boy Electric Key Grip Best Boy Grip Production Designer Art Direction Hair and Make-Up Additional Art Additional Art Sound Design & Mix Swing Stunt Coordinator Additional Stunts Additional Stunts Set Photography Additional Set Photography		ADEPERO ODUYE ABRAHAM AMKPA ALEXANDER WALDEN TJ ALLEN ADRIENNE WILLIAMS COLE WILEY DOUGLAS AGUIRRE JASON SOKOLOFF DOMINIQUE DELEON EDGARDE LABORDE ERIC LOCKLEY DOMINIQUE DELEON JASON SOKOLOFF MICHAEL REYES KETKI PANDIT MOMO ZHANG ELENA GREENLEE SHEVAUN MIZRAHI RASHAAD ERNESTO GREEN MICHAEL MATTHEWS HAN LEE DANIEL BOYAR MARIE DVORAKOVA HARRY YCAZA COLE WILEY DANA STERLING ANDREA PURCIGLIOTTI CHRISTINA STOCKEERGEER OVIE DONA LAURA SINNOTT ROBERT POOLE DREW LEARY BRIAN MORVANT SETH BRIDGES MYKWAIN GAINEY HAN LEE