Movie Review: A lyrical portrait of childhood in Cabrini-Green with ‘We Grown Now’
by Lindsey Bahr
Apr 17, 2024
3 minutes
Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” It’s an evocative memory piece, wistful and honest, and a different kind of portrait of a very infamous place: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing development.
And, pointedly, it’s a film that might not have existed without Participant, the activist film and television studio that just this month announced it was shutting down operations.
Baig sets her
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