Dori Berinstein's New Documentary 'Gotta Dance' Premieres Today In Los Angeles

"Gotta Dance," the new documentary from award-winning director, producer and writer Dori Berinstein is sweeping the country! The film will have its Los Angeles premiere today, August 21st!

The film will play its LA premiere August 21-28, 2009 at the Music Hall, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA

"Gotta Dance" will also be opening at the Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino, CA and West Park 8 in Irvine, CA.

For more information about the film, visit www.gottadancethemovie.com.

Who says you can't hip-hop if you're 80-years-old? Who says you can't shake things up and light up a jam-packed sports arena with your hot moves and cool attitude? Just because you're a card-carrying member of AARP, do you have to give up on your dreams? Absolutely not. Gotta Dance is Bad News Bears morphed into the flip side of Mad Hot Ballroom. Gotta Dance chronicles the debut of the New Jersey Nets' first-ever senior hip-hop dance team, 12 women and 1 man - all dance team newbies, from auditions through to center court stardom. As smooth dance moves are perfected and performed in front of thousands, aging myths and misperceptions are pulverized. Despite swollen ankles, exhausting rehearsals, fashion clashes and seemingly impossible dance steps, the NETSational Seniors go for it, spreading joy, inspiration and cool dance moves as they hip-hop their way into the hearts of Nets fans and beyond.

Dori Berinstein is an award-winning director, producer and writer of Film, Theatre and Television. Gotta Dance (Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival Audience Award Winner, The Floating Film Festival Best Documentary Winner), is Dori's third documentary feature.

Her first film, ShowBusiness: The Road To Broadway, released theatrically nationwide, was recognized as one of the top five films of 2006 by the International Documentary Association (IDA) and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Florida Film Festival. SHOWBUSINESS goes deep inside the backstage world of Broadway, chronicling the behind-the-scenes passion, exhilaration, drama, sweat and high-stakes creative and financial risks of Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline, or Change and Taboo from inception through the Tony Awards. www.showbusinessthemovie.com

Some Assembly Required, (SXSW '08), directed and produced by Dori, chronicles six teams of determined teenagers as they navigate ‘the game of life' on their quest to win the national toy invention crown. (Int'l Family Film Festival Best Documentary Winner). www.someassemblyrequitedthefilm.com

Dori is a three-time Tony-winning Broadway producer. Her productions include: Legally Blonde: The Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award), Liam Neeson and Laura Linney in The Crucible, Gary Sinise in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Tony Award), Fool Moon (Tony Award), Flower Drum Song, Claudia Sheer in Blown Sideways Through Life and Golden Child. Dori is the 2009 recipient of Broadway's Robert Whitehead Award for ‘outstanding achievement in commercial theatre producing'.

Additionally, Dori co-founded Camp Broadway, an immersive behind-the-scenes Theatre Camp for kids, and Thru The Stage Door, a arts education company creating cutting-edge educational programming. Both entitles are committed to instilling in kids a life-long love for the arts. www.thruthestagedoor.com

She Executive-Produced and/or supervised over 50 feature, special f/x and/or animated productions including Isaac Mizrahi's award-winning documentary Unzipped, Dirty Dancing and Jim Henson's MuppetVision 3-D. She also exec-produced websites for President Clinton and Oprah Winfrey.

For more information, visit www.gottadancethemovie.com.

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