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• Was a running back on his high school football team.
• Once worked as an assistant to director Darnell Martin.
• Made his feature debut, Medicine for the Melancholy (2008), using a $13,000 loan from a friend.
• Started a production company, Strike Anywhere, focusing on commercials and other branded content.
• Despite growing up in the same neighborhood and attending the same school as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, author of work on which Moonlight is based, the two didn't meet until they were adults.