From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

Today, director Channing Godfrey peoples and producer Neil Creaky Williams

finish each other's sentences.

More than a decade ago, they were just two graduate film students at USC,

where they'd heard about each other's work, but didn't actually meet until...

We just ended up meeting on an elevator about 11 years ago.

It was so random. So random. And I was like, oh, you're chanting. She's like, oh, you're Neil. And literally

since then, it's just been, uh, I was working together. Totally. Now married, Peoples and Williams have

made their first movie, the mother-daughter coming of age drama, Miss Juneteenth. The film is nominated

for four Independent Spirit Awards. Peoples and Williams tell us about overcoming the many

obstacles to making Miss Juneteenth, beginning with the fact that a lot of people hadn't heard

of Juneteenth. They also explain their strategy of entering the screenplay in as many competitions

as possible, and they

address the hottest controversy of all, North Carolina versus Texas barbecue.

But first on the news banter, back to theaters.

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter.

Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So we're starting to feel that the world may be starting to return to normal, vaccines rolling out.

President Biden is saying by May, people will have access to vaccine across all kinds of variables, you know, of age and employment, whatever.

So the studios, they seem to be thinking that going back to the movies is a thing that will happen.

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