The Toronto Film Festival welcomed the cast and creatives behind ‘Moonlight’ to share its story with movie lovers recently.
There, Naomie Harris, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney sat down to help the movie’s supporters dig deeper into its tale of homophobia within the deeply religious African-American community.
Click here to watch its trailer.
Watch to learn more about its groundbreaking story via the question and answer session below…
Catch ‘Moon’, and the performance Janelle Monae delivers in it, when it makes its way to theatres on October 24th.
Want its official synopsis?
A three-part narrative spanning the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of an African-American man who survives Miami’s drug-plagued inner city, finding love in unexpected places and the possibility of change within himself.
I wonder why did it take so long to Hollywood to uncover Naomie Harris. such talent! this movie sounds interesting
I’m highly thrilled about this movie. Judging from the trailer, this movie looks like it’ll be the first movie I’ll have ever seen where I can strongly relate to the main character. Being a gay black man myself, I have high hopes this movie will accurately illustrate the trials many men like me have experienced and continue to experience.
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Also, the film’s Meta Critic score is 100/100! As such, I’m sure even those who don’t identify as LGBTQ will enjoy the film just the same, please go out and support it come October. ?
It really irritates me that a blog created by a homosexual only seems to offer content catered to the LGBT community when it involves CIS gendered female celebrities. WHY do you all do that? Instead of constantly focusing on the female characters and contributors of this stellar narrative, START FEATURING the male personalities and talents that are directly involved with the work. It makes no sense that a group of gay men operate an extremely popular platform and rarely…if EVER, spotlight the work of your own brothers by specifically and directly headlining them. Where is your sense of pride? Its disgusting!
But how do you know TGJ is gay-owned?
because I am directly associated with the online community. I write for a major website that all of you read on a regular basis. we all interact and engage with one another offline. I know for a 100% fact that the creator and contributors of this particular website are homosexuals. Im close with one of their boyfriend’s as well. this is no secret or second hand information. its very common knowledge amongst the blogosphere.
So you could put your life savings on the “fact” that EVERYONE who works on this site is gay? Until you can prove that please stop.
dear… I’m not so young, immature and wasteful as to put my entire life savings into any one thing. however, I do not have to dig beneath the surface to “prove” that the creator, designers and writers of this website are ALL homosexuals. and lets just say for the sake of argument that this was a different blog created by CIS gendered men and women. it still DOES NOT MAKE SENSE that “Moonlight” is only talked about or posted when the headline involves one of the supporting, female characters. this website NEVER features gay men or LGBT, male allies when it comes to their starring roles in LGBT centered projects. I fully understand that this is a dominate pop culture/music centered website. however, when the creators, editors and contributors do decide to discuss a gay themed film, I do not understand WHY the narrative is ALWAYS spearheaded by everyone involved aside from the main, male characters who are representing gay men. it makes absolutely no sense.
Nice