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Jan Egleson’s THE DARK END OF THE STREET is a coming-of-age story set in a North Cambridge housing project. When a white teenage couple are the only witnesses to a Black youth falling to his death, they make a fateful decision to keep quiet. As a result, another person is accused of being involved and suppressed tensions explode into the open. With a bare-bones budget and a cast culled largely from the projects, this film represents regional independent filmmaking at its purest, and an embodiment of the working-class concerns it addresses.