
Moonlight Screenplay Book
- Publisher
- A24
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 978-1-7339920-2-2
- Specifications
- Debossed Hardcover
Introduction by Frank Ocean
Essay by Hilton Als
20.3 x 28 cm
200 pages
2000 copies (first edition)
September 2019
A24 Screenplay Collection 003
Book 003 in the A24 Screenplay Collection, dedicated to Moonlight (2016), directed by Barry Jenkins and based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's story In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. The film, starring Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders and André Holland, follows a young Black man's coming of age in Miami in three chapters; it won three Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. The book presents Jenkins' screenplay with an introduction by Frank Ocean, an essay by Hilton Als, acceptance speeches from Moonlight's historic Oscars night, and the '24 Frames' section of director-selected stills. One of the first three books in the collection, launched in September 2019 in a first edition of 2000 copies. Published by A24, distributed through MACK.