Most Hollywood agents will tell a client that the best way to gain legtimacy as a real actor with directors and producers is to go the indie film circuit. Although Xzibit already has a couple of films on his resume, he recently took a role in the powerful and moving film American Violet to prove he’s in it for the long haul.

The movie is currently making its way through the indie film festival circuit but currently does not have a distributor so no release date is set. Check out the trailer, first pics of Xzibit from the film and synopsis below. Props to ProHipHop for the info.

Official synopsis as follows:

“Based on real events and set in a small Texas town in the midst of the 2000 Bush/Gore Presidential election, AMERICAN VIOLET tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts (critically hailed newcomer Nicole Beharie), a 24 year old African-American single mother of four who is wrongfully swept up in a drug raid.”

“Despite the urgings of her mother… and with her freedom and the custody of her children at stake, she chooses to fight the powerful district attorney…and the unyielding criminal justice system he represents. Joined in an unlikely alliance with an ACLU attorney…and former local narcotics officer…Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes her life, and the Texas justice system.”