Joslyn Barnes

Joslyn Barnes
Occupation(s)Producer and writer
Websitewww.louverturefilms.com

Joslyn Barnes is a film producer and writer. Known for Bamako (2006), The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011), Cemetery of Splendour (2015), White Sun (2016), Zama (2017), Strong Island (2017) for which she received an Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination, and Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) for which she received an Oscar nomination again for Best Documentary Feature.[1][2][3][4][5][excessive citations] Barnes also produced and co-wrote the 2024 drama Nickel Boys (adapted from Colson Whitehead's titular novel), along with co-writer and director RaMell Ross.

  1. ^ "'Strong Island's Yance Ford Makes History As First Openly Trans Filmmaker To Win At Creative Arts Emmys". Deadline. Retrieved September 9, 2018.
  2. ^ "Women Who Made the World of Filmmaking a Better Place in 2018". IndieWire. 17 December 2018. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  3. ^ "Oscars 2018: Shape of Water leads the way with bumper 13 nominations". The Guardian. 23 January 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  4. ^ "The 2018 Oscar Nominations Are Here". The Huffington Post. 23 January 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  5. ^ "The list of nominees for the 91st Academy Awards". The Associated Press. Retrieved January 22, 2019.