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Watch the pow­er­ful first trail­er for gay dra­ma Moonlight

12 Aug 2016

Words by Christina Newland

Bar­ry Jenk­ins’ new film is set to pre­mière at this year’s Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Festival.

Since the com­pa­ny was found­ed in 2012, inde­pen­dent US dis­trib­u­tor A24 has released some of our favourite movies of recent years, includ­ing Spring Break­ers, Under the Skin and The Witch to name just a few. Now they’ve moved into co-pro­duc­tion with Moon­light, which judg­ing by its offi­cial trail­er looks a sure bet to be one of the high­lights of 2016.

Writ­ten and direct­ed by Bar­ry Jenk­ins and based on the play ​‘In Moon­light Black Boys Look Blue’ by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the film tells the life sto­ry of a gay black man named Chi­ron (Tre­vante Rhodes) over three sep­a­rate but con­nect­ed chap­ters. The tal­ent­ed cast also includes Naomie Har­ris, André Hol­land and Maher­sha­la Ali.

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A bit­ter­sweet jour­ney of self-dis­cov­ery that explores mas­culin­i­ty and sex­u­al­i­ty against a back­drop of Rea­gan-era pol­i­tics, Moon­light looks poised to be an excit­ing, vital moment in con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can cin­e­ma. Watch the pow­er­ful teas­er above and let us know your thoughts @LWLies

Moon­light is sched­uled for released on Octo­ber 21, fol­low­ing its world pre­mière at the 2016 Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Festival.

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