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The 2025 winners of the third annual Sony Future Filmmaker Awards were revealed at a black-tie event in Los Angeles on ...
Sony reveals the winners of the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards 2025, providing a platform for emerging storytellers from around the world ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Minhal Baig, who wrote and directed the new movie "We Grown Now." It's about two kids in the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago in the early 1990s.
Some years it’s easy. This year, the accomplishments of Rogers Park native and current Hyde Park resident Minhal Baig, as she’s rarely described in interviews originating outside Chicago ...
Chicago native Minhal Baig’s new movie, “We Grown Now,” is set to premiere in the U.S. this week at the Chicago International Film Festival. Getty Images Share Filmmaker Minhal Baig ...
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 ...
Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now,” which bowed Sept. 8 at TIFF, follows Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez), two 10-year-old boys living in Chicago’s Cabrini Green ...
The 'Hala’ filmmaker returns with another gentle coming-of-age story where the joys and angsts of childhood are portrayed against the backdrop of the city’s Cabrini-Green Housing Project.
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — We Grown Now 4 out of 5 Stars Director: Minhal Baig Writer: Minhal Baig Starring: Jurnee Smollett,Blake Cameron James,Gian Knight Ramirez Genre: Drama Rated: PG for ...
When I saw writer-director Minhal Baig’s sophomore feature film, “We Grown Now,” at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), I missed the parental reference its vernacular ...
There's pain, but also joy and friendship. Minhal Baig wrote and directed the film. I asked her, growing up in Chicago, what she knew about Cabrini Green. MINHAL BAIG: You know, even as a kid ...