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Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy (2008), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. He is also a creative collaborator and a member of The Chopstars collective. Following an eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, Jenkins directed and co-wrote the LGBTQ-themed independent drama Moonlight (2016), which won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Jenkins received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and jointly won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Tarell Alvin McCraney. He became the fourth Black person nominated for Best Director and the second to direct a Best Picture winner. He released his third directorial feature If Beale Street Could Talk 2018, to critical praise and earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. He is also known for his work in television. In 2017, Jenkins directed "Chapter V" of the Netflix series Dear White People. In 2021, he created and directed the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad, based on the novel of the same name. The series received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie nomination and won a Peabody Award. In 2017, Jenkins was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Jenkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Barry Jenkins
Writer
for Writer in Lizard Queen: The Pamela Courson Story
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Lizard Queen is an evocative and haunting biopic that tells the life story of Pamela Susan Courson, the enigmatic woman who was the muse, lover, and tragic companion to rock icon Jim Morrison of The Doors. Set against the backdrop of the counterculture revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, this film explores the highs and lows of Courson’s tumultuous life—her rise from a free-spirited California girl to a central figure in one of rock and roll’s most iconic love stories. From the moment Pamela met Jim, the sparks of their relationship set off a firestorm of passion, creativity, and self-destruction. Lizard Queen will portray their electric but tortured bond, delving into the complexities of their addiction, the strain of fame, and the haunting presence of death. When Jim Morrison was found lifeless in a Paris apartment in 1971, it was Pamela who discovered his body, a moment that would change the course of her life forever. Three years later, at just 27, she too would succumb to the pressures of the rock-and-roll lifestyle. Through Pamela’s eyes, the film unpacks the myth of Jim Morrison, revealing him as both a genius and a man consumed by his inner demons, and Pamela as someone much more than the “Lizard Queen” or tragic muse often reduced to a footnote in his story. It is a powerful, emotional journey through the price of fame, love, and loss, showing the toll it took on a young woman who spent her life in the shadows of both the man she loved and the world that adored him.
