{"id":2111,"date":"2016-12-20T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T11:00:09","slug":"moonlight-the-small-budget-film-that-is-sweeping-hollywood-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2016\/12\/20\/moonlight-the-small-budget-film-that-is-sweeping-hollywood-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonlight: The small-budget film that is sweeping Hollywood awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92998519_still-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2112\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92998519_still-05.jpg\" alt=\"_92998519_still-05\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92998519_still-05.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92998519_still-05-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">It&#8217;s been hailed by critics as diverse film-making at its best, but the director of Moonlight, which has six Golden Globe nominations, says the film is not a response to the #OscarsSoWhite criticism of last year&#8217;s award season.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-born filmmaker Barry Jenkins wrote and directed the film, based on a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, about a young African American boy named Chiron coming to terms with his sexuality as he grows up in a tough Florida neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>However, while the shoot took only 25 days, Jenkins says he conceived the project &#8220;at least three-and-a-half years ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He explains: &#8220;That&#8217;s fairly average because it takes a long time for a film to get made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So all these movies we have this year &#8211; Birth of a Nation, A United Kingdom, Loving, Fences &#8211; which are being framed as a reply to the campaign about the lack of diversity in the system, probably began about four years ago. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-38342818\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been hailed by critics as diverse film-making at its best, but the director of Moonlight, which has six Golden Globe nominations, says the film is not a response to the #OscarsSoWhite criticism of last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}