Director Edo Natasha, holding a potted popolo plant, celebrated with cast members Quantae Love, left, Curtis Duncan and Manny Baez after a special screening of his first film, “Popolo,” Thursday at the Consolidated Theatres Ward 16 complex. Love stars as an American war vet who inherits a house in Hawaii and gets entangled with local thugs, corrupt police officers, a gang of war vets and the Yakuza.

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