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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Out in theaters Friday, ‘Brownsville Bred’ is an intimate portrait of the actor, writer and director as a young girl in 1980s New York.

When Elaine Del Valle was in the sixth grade, she starred in the lead role of Sandy in her school’s production of “Grease.”

Decades later, she would return to that same school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to shoot scenes for her autobiographical film “Brownsville Bred” — which will debut in select theaters nationwide on Friday.

Tethered to the people and places that shaped her into the person she’s become, Del Valle, 54, has been working on this intensely personal project for over 16 years. Now a filmmaker, she began her entertainment career as a

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