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Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins is an American director and screenwriter nominated in both the Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories for Moonlight. The gripping drama follows a gay black male during three stages of his life — from a child to a teen and finally as a young adult — in the impoverished Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. Before this critical darling, Jenkins wrote and directed Medicine for Melancholy, a film that follows two twenty-somethings in San Francisco who have a one-night stand and end up spending 24 hours together discussing race and gentrification as they explore the city. The next place you can see Jenkins at work is on Netflix's "Dear White People," which premieres April 28, as he directed the sixth episode of the series that is based on Justin Simien's 2014 film of the same name.
Barry Jenkins is an American director and screenwriter nominated in both the Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories for Moonlight. The gripping drama follows a gay black male during three stages of his life — from a child to a teen and finally as a young adult — in the impoverished Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. Before this critical darling, Jenkins wrote and directed Medicine for Melancholy, a film that follows two twenty-somethings in San Francisco who have a one-night stand and end up spending 24 hours together discussing race and gentrification as they explore the city. The next place you can see Jenkins at work is on Netflix's "Dear White People," which premieres April 28, as he directed the sixth episode of the series that is based on Justin Simien's 2014 film of the same name.
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