Bompton Had a Dream

Bompton Had a Dream is a 2020 American coming-of-age hood comedy-drama film written and directed by Rashan Allen and produced by Ali-Han Ibragimov, set in the Piru side of the Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, which is commonly called "Bompton" by Bloods.
The screenplay is based on a NAACP ACT-SO award-winning play A Dream Deferred that Allen wrote in 2015, the title of which alludes to Langston Hughes's poem suite Montage of a Dream Deferred.
Plot
The film's story revolves around Compton native Javon Escoe, the top high school basketball player in the nation out of Centennial High, on his commitment day, and on this day he's just trying to get to the park to shoot around, when he runs into his old friends who get him off-track, meanwhile, his younger brother Mel just got initiated as a Westside Piru, and had to fight a Crip for it, but instead he got knocked out and now everyone around him is peer pressuring him into fighting the Crip again.
Casting for the picture began in fall 2018.
After previously doing creative and camera work for the streetball legend Bone Collector, Ibragimov and Allen have secured him to make a cameo appearance in the film.
Rapper and actor DMX was the original choice for the character of Don, before Dairold Potts, a Compton native, was casted for it.
Ibragimov and Allen have set a goal of having every single filming location in Compton, and the first location that was locked in was the Centennial High School, the school that Kendrick Lamar has graduated from, which is also a few blocks away from the Piru Street.
Compton rapper Jay Worthy has praised Bompton Had a Dream upon release, calling it a "great movie".

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