There’s a calmness to filmmaker Antwon Lindsey’s voice when he talks about growing up in Liberty City, describing how his childhood in Miami’s historically Black neighborhood molded him.
“It shaped my art because it allowed me to somewhat see how I wanted to transform my life,” he said. “I dealt with a lot of close friends being killed and gun violence. And I always knew that I had a different path, and so I just decided to take a different route.”
But growing up in Liberty City, Lindsey, 32, said it was unpopular to be into the arts. “It wasn’t the masculine persona that you got into,” he said. “If you’re in the arts, then you’re weird or something’s wrong with you,” he said, adding that it was often expected that you’d be into sports or in the streets…