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Coogler — a Black director from Oakland, California, who was originally going to pursue medicine before a college professor pointed him toward screenplay writing — fought for his success.

Unsure of his creative and professional roles, Nick is living back home with his parents while he LARPs, bartends and tries unsuccessfully to write a screenplay.

It won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival and earned writer Lionel Chetwynd an Academy Award nomination for adapted screenplay.

“Jeff changed my life by saying yes to a screenplay that I wrote specifically for him,” Cooper, who made his directorial debut with the film, tells The Times.

Over the course of those years, the screenplay for “Párvulos” would become infused with Ezban’s interactions with his children Naomi and Alexander.