Director

Joslyn Barnes

Production

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Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.6

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 44

TMDB ID: 1041089

IMDb ID: nm0055656

Known for: Production

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2000 - 2026

Years active: 27

Average TMDB rating: 6.57

Wikidata: Q21693874

Frequent jobs

Producer (18)Executive Producer (12)Co-Producer (8)Associate Producer (2)Consulting Producer (2)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Joslyn Barnes is a film producer and writer. Known for Bamako (2006), The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011), Cemetery of Splendour (2015), White Sun (2016), Zama (2017), Strong Island (2017) for which she received an Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination, and Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) for which she received an Oscar nomination again for Best Documentary Feature. Barnes also produced and co-wrote the 2024 drama Nickel Boys (adapted from Colson Whitehead's titular novel), along with co-writer and director RaMell Ross, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joslyn Barnes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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