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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.
Carl Lucas was sent to a local penitentiary for multiple counts of petty theft. After he arrives he’s given an opportunity by some doctors at the prison, they offer to reduce his sentence if he agrees to participate in an experiment they're conducting. After some encouragement from his guidance counselor Nicole, he agrees to take part in the experiment. However the doctors aren’t interested in helping Carl, they’re trying to test how long a human can withstand massive amounts of pressure before death. But miraculously, this experiment changes Carl inside and out. Making him a hulking behemoth made up of nothing but muscle, and inhuman strength to boot. He beats down all the doctors and flees the scene, shedding the name Carl Lucas. And becoming Luke Cage.
