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Barry Jenkins

The writer-director of Moonlight, a story about a boy growing up black, gay and poor in Miami, on his Oscar-nominated film

What reaction have you gotten from people in Liberty City, Miami, where the movie is set? The community really took ownership. People see the main character as any one of the hundreds of kids living in that neighborhood. [Writer] Tarell Alvin McCraney and I are from that neighborhood, and they see that we have a Golden Globe, that we have eight

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