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 Turning Pages: The Rise of New Adult Literature
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In Turning Pages, we chronicle the fascinating and untold journey of new adult (NA) literature—a genre born out of the digital age and driven by the changing tides of social, cultural, and literary trends. Set across multiple episodes, each with a unique narrative lens, this anthology-style miniseries dives deep into the lives of pioneering authors, the emergence of self-publishing, and the voices of readers who helped shape the genre. The story begins in the late 2000s when a generation of readers, many familiar with the YA boom, found themselves craving more complex narratives about the messy, often uncertain phase of early adulthood—college, relationships, career beginnings, and the search for identity. Enter new adult literature, a genre that blends the coming-of-age elements of young adult fiction with the raw emotions and mature themes of adult fiction.
