Quentin, a rambunctious nine-year old skateboarder, bursts onto a New York City subway car for his morning commute to school and nearly collides with an elderly woman riding home from the supermarket. Reconciled, they ride to the next station. There, an uncoordinated gutter punk boards and accosts the two travelers, hustling for spare change. Good natured Quentin contributes and urges Granny, the elderly woman, to share some food. At the following stop, a lanky blues musician woos the three with melodious sounds from his saxophone. Moved, they make donations, only for Quentin to realize he has given away his lunch money. Through his tears, he tells his fellow commuters that he is an orphan. Taking pity, the two panhandlers give him back some coins while Granny reaches into her grocery bag to prepare the boy lunch, using all of her remaining groceries. Instead of taking advantage of Granny's generosity, they create a magnificent banquet out of Granny's groceries and share a meal together. Through their compassion for each other the four strangers unintentionally have formed a surrogate family. They redecorate the subway car and call it "Home."

Elanna Nicole Allen wrote, directed and produced Low Down Underground during her senior year at Brown University with the help of Nickelodeon, as her honors thesis. She studied illustration and animation at the Rhode Island School of Design and in 1999 graduated with honors with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Brown University. During her college years, she studied stop motion animation in Prague under Bretislav Pojar and held an internship at Jiri Trnka's studio Bratri V Tricku. Also, while at school, Elanna worked as a clean up and layout artist for the Nickelodeon animated series, "Hey Arnold!." She is presently a character animator on MTV's stop motion series, "Celebrity Deathmatch."

Low Down Underground begins its Film Festival circuit by competing in the New York International Children's Film Festival in February 2001.

The story of Low Down Underground, which has a TRT of 6:30, is told through rap and features the voices of Treach, formerly part of the funky rap trio, Naughty by Nature and Pepa formerly of the hit duo Salt-n-Pepa. The music was composed and produced by talented hip hop artist, producer and remixer, Prince Paul. Albie Hecht, President of Nickelodeon Film & Television Entertainment serves as Executive Producer.

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Stefan Gronsky's computer graphics and filmmaking obsession began at age 6 with an Apple Macintosh 512KE and a Sony 8mm video camera. A self-taught artist/filmmaker, Stefan is studying computer science at UC Berkeley. He has worked at Tippett Studio and interned at Pixar.

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