4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Director Barry Jenkins and producer Adele Romanski tell us about making their awards-contender Moonlight, about a gay African American boy growing up surrounded by poverty and drugs in Miami.
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0:00.0 | A jail stint can really disrupt someone's life. |
0:03.0 | You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines and bail. |
0:08.0 | Have I ever gone to jail? |
0:09.0 | Yeah, I just got out, actually. |
0:10.0 | If he doesn't show up the court, we've got to pay the $50,000. |
0:13.0 | No degree exchange, no kiss the bride. |
0:16.0 | There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding. |
0:19.0 | Off the block, all six episodes tracing the path from city block to jail block and back are now available on KCRW's iTunes page. |
0:27.6 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business. |
0:36.6 | This is challenging material and it's a world that most places you show it, it's going to feel like a world away from anybody else's life. |
0:44.3 | And yet I've been consistently amazed at how much people are seeing of themselves in the film, and I think that's the key. |
0:50.3 | When Barry Jenkins' film Moonlight premiered at Telluride this year, |
0:54.7 | he had no idea how many people would connect with his drama |
0:57.6 | about a gay black boy growing up in a tough Miami neighborhood. |
1:01.7 | Jenkins and producer Adela Romansky tell us how persistence and kismet |
1:05.8 | led to the creation of awards contender, Moonlight. |
1:09.3 | But first on the news banter, Hollywood is in a Trump tailspin. |
1:13.3 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:21.5 | I am joined by my banter buddy, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. |
1:25.0 | Hello, Matt. |
1:26.0 | Hi there. |
1:27.1 | So, Matt, I think for the past few days and for many days to come, Hollywood at large, the majority, the great majority of people who work in Hollywood are still, they're just not going to be able to digest a Donald Trump victory in the presidential election, possibly ever. but certainly has, I would guess, slowed down |
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