Off and Running movie is directed by Nicole Opper. This movie is based on a teen from Brooklyn who named Avery. Off and Running is an documentary based on that boy. She is beginning to quesion her true identity.

The film follows Avery through her turbulent teenage years as she embarks upon a complex journey of racial, familial and self-exploration that ultimately threatens to upset the loving family and life she always has known.

16 year Avery is an intelligent, curious and a gifted track star girl. Living with her lesbian mother and mixed race older brother, and her younger Korean brother.

Avery, who is black, is being raised in a highly blended and well-adjusted family. Avery loves her family very much, but at the same time, she feels compelled to connect with her racial roots.

Consequently, Avery attempts to get in touch with her birth mother, who has been living in Texas. At first, this seems like a step in the right direction for Avery, but she soon finds herself trudging through a quagmire of adolescent anguish, self-doubt and self-pity that leads her to venture into risky behaviors that jeopardize both her familial relations and her shot at getting a track scholarship.

The trialer of the movie recently released, this consits interview clips in a very effective way. The trailer starts with Avery’s family needs to seek a paint for ther home.