Person
Joslyn Barnes
Production
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.
Known for
Nickel Boys
Screenplay
Capernaum
Executive Producer
Crane Lantern
Producer
Highway
Producer
Pooja, Sir
Executive Producer
The Time That Remains
Associate Producer
Bamako
Executive Producer
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Associate Producer
President
Producer
Prayers for the Stolen
Co-Producer
Filmography
- 2026Conbody vs EverybodyExecutive Producer
- 2026Our LandProducer
- 2025TrillionProducer
- 2025Powwow PeopleConsulting Producer
- 2025Pooja, SirExecutive Producer
- 2025HarvestProducer
- 2025Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each OtherExecutive Producer
- 2024Nickel BoysScreenplay
- 2023PresidentProducer
- 2022EamiProducer
- 2022Crane LanternProducer
- 2021MemoriaCo-Producer
- 2021Prayers for the StolenCo-Producer
- 2021In Between DyingCo-Producer
- 2021GundaCo-Producer
- 2019Easter SnapProducer
- 2018CapernaumExecutive Producer
- 2018Hale County This Morning, This EveningProducer
- 2018Angels Are Made of LightProducer
- 2017Sollers PointCo-Producer
- 2017That SummerProducer
- 2017This Is CongoExecutive Producer
- 2017Strong IslandProducer
- 2016White SunProducer
- 2016Shadow WorldProducer
- 2016CamerapersonConsulting Producer
- 2015This Changes EverythingProducer
- 2015Cemetery of SplendorCo-Producer
- 2015The Strange Eyes of Dr. MyesExecutive Producer
- 2014The Narrow Frame of MidnightProducer
- 2014Concerning ViolenceCo-Producer
- 2013For Those Who Can Tell No TalesExecutive Producer
- 2012ShenandoahExecutive Producer
- 2012HighwayProducer
- 2011Dum Maaro DumExecutive Producer
- 2011The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975Producer
- 2010The Disappearance of McKinley NolanExecutive Producer
- 2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past LivesAssociate Producer
- 2009The Time That RemainsAssociate Producer
- 2009Soundtrack for a RevolutionProducer
- 2008Salt of This SeaCo-Producer
- 2008Trouble the WaterExecutive Producer
- 2007BamakoExecutive Producer
- 2000BàttuAssociate Producer
- 1990Touch of a StrangerWriter
- —Last DaysProducer
- —The Story of Documentary FilmExecutive Producer
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