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Stretch of Miami Streets to Be Named in Honor of Moonlight
Moonlight may have won Best Picture at the Oscars and was a fan favorite, but the movie is receiving an even bigger honor in Miami. A stretch of streets will be called Moonlight Way because the movie takes place in Miami and it’s where its director, Barry Jenkins, and playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney, are from.…
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Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Will Direct New Amazon Series The Underground Railroad
And Amazon.com’s next hit series will be: white people singing off-key about how they saved jazz! Wait … no … I think they gave us the wrong envelope. … OK, here’s the correct announcement: Barry Jenkins, director of last year’s highly acclaimed Moonlight, has been tapped to direct a new series based on the award-winning…
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Barry Jenkins Shares His Best Picture Speech He Didn’t Get to Use at the Oscars
If there were ever anyone deserving of an Oscar acceptance-speech do-over, that would be Moonlight director Barry Jenkins. As we all probably know, La La Land was announced as the Best Picture winner at the Oscars by accident, and Jenkins, in the rush of the moment, wasn’t granted the time to give an acceptance speech.…
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At the AAFCA Awards, Black Artists of TV and Film Invest in One Another
You can’t call it a comeback because we’ve never been here before. To paraphrase actor Omar Dorsey, aka “Hollywood” from the TV show Queen Sugar, at Wednesday night’s African American Film Critics Association Awards, you can’t call it a rebirth because this is something in its infancy. We’ve only just begun. What Dorsey was referring…
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Review: Moonlight Chronicles Discovering One’s Sexual Identity in the Worst of Circumstances
In Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ (Medicine for Melancholy) semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, we follow the three life stages of Chiron (Alex Hibbert), a young African-American boy trying to figure out his identity in Liberty City, a rough Miami neighborhood. Chiron, who is nicknamed “Little,” is bullied relentlessly by neighborhood boys, who have decided that he is gay…
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