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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Director Barry Jenkins comments on race in San Francisco-based film

IFC Films/Courtesy

San Francisco has a hard time finding representation in cinema. It’s too expensive to film here, and besides, New York is cinema’s favorite city. We have LA-transplant Barry Jenkins to thank for writing and directing “Medicine for Melancholy,” the quintessential San Francisco film because it wouldn’t work any place else.
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