Joslyn Barnes
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.
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Known For
Crew
Harvest
Producer, Screenplay
2025
Nickel Boys
Screenplay, Producer
2024
Memoria
Co-Producer
2021
Prayers for the Stolen
Co-Producer
2021
Gunda
Co-Producer
2021
Capernaum
Executive Producer
2018
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Producer
2018
Sollers Point
Co-Producer
2017
That Summer
Producer
2017
This Is Congo
Executive Producer
2017
Strong Island
Producer
2017
Shadow World
Producer
2016