Locations

The film will primarily be shot in and around Brooklyn, New York.

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The production has secured the support of the Board of Education Public School 284.  It is the Brownsville, Brooklyn elementary school alma mater of the writer.  

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Opening courtyard exteriors will be at Brownsville's Langston Hughes project buildings, as depicted in the true story, and leaning into the authenticity of our title setting.

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Family home interiors will be in shot in uptown Manhattan, in a two bedroom apartment that resembles the writer's childhood home.

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A company move to Puerto Rico will include the neighborhoods of Cataño and Condado.