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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.
Olivia Wright (Emily Blunt) is a well respected and successful book writer and poet, but she hasn’t had a breakthrough or published any books in awhile and is having trouble writing her new book. Until she meets Isabel Perez (Ana de Armas) from one of her book readings. The two become friends and form a beautiful bond. The two than decide to camping and rent a cabin for the week. During the week things take quick turn, the two start falling in love with each other. During the time they are falling in love they talk about their lives, previous relationships, family and place they always wanted to go. After a year of being together Isabel wants to meet Olivia’s family and introduce herself to her parents on a camping trip. Olivia doesn’t feel comfortable with it, but after some consideration she decides that they should do it. But Olivia’s boss wants her to work on her book during her camping trip or he’ll terminate the contract they have.
