What is ‘Grassland’ about?

Executive Produced by Common, Grassland is a topical and riveting social justice drama about the criminal justice system and marijuana incarceration rates. The narrative film, which is led by Mía Maestro (The Motorcycle Diaries), Quincy Isaiah (Winning Time), Jeff Kober (Sons of Anarchy) and Ravi Cabot-Conyers (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew), is set in 2008 and explores both the economic recession and the inequities of incarceration rates of the era. The story follows Leo (Cabot-Conyers), an inquisitive and sensitive boy who puts his single mother’s (Maestro) illegal marijuana business at risk when he befriends the new neighbors, a young white boy and his police officer grandfather (Kober).