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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
Director
for Director in Martian Manhunter: Alien Atlas
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Brilliant scientist Saul Erdel is testing a device that will allow him to communicate with other planets, when a beam caused by the machine accidentally teleports an alien known as J'onn J'onzz to Erdel's hometown of Denver, Colorado. J'onn J'onzz is one of Mars' last survivors, the first natural-born green martian in the White Martian race of humanoids who has lost most of his family to his twin brother Ma'alefa'ak, who was born with a resistance to fire, the weakness of the green Martians. When the arrival of J'onn destroys his machine and the notes as well, leaving J'onn stranded on Earth, Erdel has no choice but to become the Martian's mentor and encourages J'onn to help the people of Earth with his shape-shifting and ghostly powers. Taking the guise of police detective John Jones, J'onn must now stop Ma'alefa'ak from conquering Earth, becoming the Martian Manhunter, a bizarre but kind-hearted hero.
