Biography

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. 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, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joslyn Barnes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Nickel Boys

2024Film
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Capernaum

2018Film
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2010Film
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Harvest

2025Film
6.0
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Pooja, Sir

2025Film
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The Time That Remains

2009Film
7.2
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Prayers for the Stolen

2021Film
7.6
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Gunda

2021Film
7.2
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Shadow World

2016Film
7.4
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Concerning Violence

2014Film
7.0
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Dum Maaro Dum

2011Film
5.6
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Memoria

2021Film
6.0