Which 2013 independent film is based on the shooting of Oscar Grant by BART police?

Which 2013 independent film is based on the shooting of Oscar Grant by BART police? The answer is Fruitvale Station.

Fruitvale Station is Ryan Coogler’s 2013 biographical drama about Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Oakland-area resident who was fatally shot by BART Police officer Johannes Mehserle at Oakland’s Fruitvale station in the early hours of January 1, 2009. Michael B. Jordan portrays Grant, while the film follows his final day, including time with his daughter, girlfriend, friends, and mother.

Coogler wrote and directed the film in his feature debut. It opens with real footage of Grant and his friends being detained, connecting the dramatized story to the widely documented event. The film’s title was changed from Fruitvale after its Sundance premiere, where it won both the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award.

The real shooting led to protests and a major legal case. Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served an 11-month sentence. Fruitvale Station is sometimes mistaken for a general police-brutality drama, but its narrative is specifically centered on Grant’s life and death.