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3 days ago · Minhal Baig’s coming-of-age film “We Grown Now” gives us a realistic take on life inside the 15,000-person housing complex that became known for gang violence and the film “Candyman.” Blake Cameron James, a 10-year-old from Birmingham, Alabama, and 9-year-old Gian Knight Ramirez from Chicago, deliver two amazing performances.
Apr 28, 2024 · Minhal Baig's 'We Grown Now' follows two Chicago kids in the early 1990s. April 28, 20248:04 AM ET. Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday. Ayesha Rascoe. 7-Minute Listen. Playlist. NPR's Ayesha...
Minhal Baig is a filmmaker. Her latest feature, We Grown Now, about two boys growing up in a Cabrini-Green high rise when a tragedy irrevocably changes their lives, premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, awarded the TIFF Changemaker Award and Audience Award at Chicago International Film Festival and received Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Best Editing nominations for ...
Oct 18, 2023 · No one’s story is a simple one, and writer-director Minhal Baig’s third feature “We Grown Now” takes care to depict her main characters — two boys growing up and then growing apart in...
Apr 19, 2024 · With ‘We Grown Now,’ Chicago Filmmaker Minhal Baig Crafts A Loving Ode To Cabrini-Green. The new coming-of-age film about the community that called the housing project home opens Friday in local theaters. by Web Behrens April 19, 2024.
Apr 26, 2024 · Director: Minhal Baig. Writer: Minhal Baig. Starring: Jurnee Smollett, Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez. Genre: Drama. Rated: PG for thematic material and language. Synopsis: In 1992 ...
5 days ago · Minhal Baig, Participant Media, Sony Pictures Classics, Stage 6, Symbolic Exchange, Walter Ellison, We Grown Now Through chronicling a critical turning point for the residents of Chicago’s now-defunct Cabrini-Green public housing project, writer-director Minhal Baig ’s We Grown Now explores how the reverberations of this bygone time and ...
