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Joslyn Barnes
Producer, Writer
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | |
| 2024 | Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Rajagunj: Pooja, Sir · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | The End · as Consulting Producer |
| 2024 | |
| 2022 | Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | You Resemble Me · as Consulting Producer |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Memoria · as Co-Producer |
| 2021 | Prayers for the Stolen · as Co-Producer |
| 2021 | Flee · as Consulting Producer |
| 2020 | In Between Dying · as Co-Producer |
| 2020 | Gunda · as Co-Producer |
| 2018 | Aquarela · as Co-Producer |
| 2018 | Capernaum · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | Sollers Point · as Co-Producer |
| 2017 | Zama · as Co-Producer |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | This is Congo · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | House in the Fields · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Cameraperson · as Consulting Producer |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | Cemetery of Splendor · as Co-Producer |
| 2015 | Incorruptible · as Consulting Producer |
| 2015 | The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Life Is Sacred · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | Concerning Violence · as Co-Producer |
| 2013 | For Those Who Can Tell No Tales · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Shenandoah · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The House I Live In · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | |
| 2011 | Dum Maaro Dum · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | |
| 2010 | The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives · as Associate Producer |
| 2009 | The Time That Remains · as Associate Producer |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | Trouble the Water · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Salt of This Sea · as Co-Producer |
| 2008 | Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's 60th Birthday · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Bamako · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Co-Producer |
| 1988 | American Experience (TV Series) |