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Barry JenkinsOscar-nominee Barry Jenkins, acclaimed director of Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, has announced his next project: a biopic of innovative choreographer Alvin Ailey. Ailey grew up in Texas at the height of the Great Depression, and during a time of terrible discrimination against African-Americans. He escaped to California, and later to New York City, where the Broadway stage became his canvas. Ailey founded the world-famous Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre in 1958, from which he pioneered new techniques in dance and assembled a...