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Baby-faced Harlem teens starring in controversial new film shot uptown;
• www.nydailynews.comThe streets of Harlem are being run by baby-faced gun-toting kids who aren't afraid to pull the trigger and leave a bloody trail of bodies in a new independent film that's quickly making the rounds uptown.
There's wild shoot outs, drugs and sex in “Toddlers” - shot in Harlem using neighborhood kids as young as 12 making their acting debut.
The DVD, released last month, has anti-violence activists charging the movie glorifies guns. They’re thinking about boycotting the video store selling the film.
Director Termaine (M5) Brown insisted he's not promoting gun violence, just showing a harsh reality.
"That's what's going on, I'm just showing it," Brown told the Daily News. "You hear about these murders, but people don't see how it happens. I show how these incidents happen. These are real life situations.
"The parents don't get to see what these kids are really doing," said Brown, 29, who was raised in Harlem and shot many scenes on W. 147th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam two summers ago.