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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

Chicago film festival to open with local director’s take on life in Cabrini-Green

Chicago native Minhal Baig’s new movie, “We Grown Now,” is set to premiere in the U.S. this week at the Chicago International Film Festival. (Getty Images)

Filmmaker Minhal Baig, a graduate of North Side College Prep, is about to present a novel perspective on a notorious Chicago topic: life in the Cabrini-Green complex high-rises.

Her new movie “We Grown Now,” which shows the joys and hardships of growing up in public housing through the eyes of two 10-year-old boys, will have its U.S. premiere Oct. 11 at the Music Box Theatre as the opening film for the 59th Chicago International Film Festival.

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