Barry jenkins

With his movie Moonlight, director Barry Jenkins returns to fracture the very notion of a personal film.

While the ‘Moonlight’ director was turning Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel into an Amazon Prime Video series, he learned new things about himself.

David Remnick talks with the director of “Moonlight,” about the recent flourishing of Black cinema, a formative lesson about movie sound, and how he lights dark skin.

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Barry Jenkins, the writer-director behind Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, reflects on the filmmaking choices behind the miniseries, and how intuition and instinct shaped his most ambitious project to date.

The Oscar-winning director on his upcoming adaptation of ‘The Underground Railroad’ for Amazon, his unique path to Hollywood, and much more

“The thing has happened.”

Moonlight (2016) Barry Jenkins

Moonlight (2016) directed by Barry Jenkins.