Filmmaker Minhal Baig Digs Into Childhood Hopes and Trauma in Toronto Premiere ‘We Grown Now’

Filmmaker Minhal Baig Digs Into Childhood Hopes and Trauma in Toronto Premiere ‘We Grown Now’

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Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now,” which bowed Sept. 8 at TIFF, follows Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez), two 12-year-old boys living in Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing project. It’s 1992 and the boys have loving homes overzealous and racist police, crime and an unthinkable…

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