Age: 46
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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 Sonic the Hedgehog: Adventures in Northstar Islands
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After defeating Metal Sonic again, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy are heading to a new island called the North Star Islands, as they discover Dr. Eggman is once again converting animals into robot and trying to take over the world, this time while even converting giant animals into Super-Badniks as well seeking a mysterious dark force within the islands to assist his latest plot. Along the way, they also cross paths with the returning Metal Sonic, a robotic versions of Sonic’s friends with a doll version of Tails, Team Hooligans, hired by Eggman as bounty hunters, and their meek partner Trip the Sungazer. With all these new threats in their way, it's up to Sonic and his friends with Longclaw along the way to free the animal friends once more, explore the mysterious Northstar Islands alongside its secrets, and stop Eggman's latest plan of world domination.
