Joslyn Barnes
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.
Joslyn Barnes

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- Name
- Joslyn Barnes
- Occupation
- Producer and writer
- Born
- 1950
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- film production · film screenwriting
- Languages
- English
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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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• Name — Joslyn Barnes • Occupation — Producer and writer • Website — louverturefilms.com
Filmography
Filmography
• 2024: Nickel Boys (Full-length feature film) (producer; co-writer, w/ RaMell Ross) • 2019: Easter Snap (Documentary short) (producer - produced by) • 2018: Angels Are Made of Light (Documentary) (co-producer) • 2018: Aquarela (Documentary) (co-producer) (post-production) • 2018: Capernaum (executive-producer) • 2018: Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Documentary) (producer - produced by) • 2017: Sollers Point (co-producer) • 2017: That Summer (Documentary) (producer - produced by) • 2017: This Is Congo (Documentary) (executive producer) • 2017: Zama (co-producer) • 2017: The Maribor Uprisings (Documentary) (consulting producer) • 2017: House in the Fields (Documentary) (executive producer) • 2017: Strong Island (Documentary) (producer - produced by) • 2016: The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes (TV Series) (executive producer - 1 episode) • 2016: White Sun (producer - produced by) • 2016: Shadow World (Documentary) (producer - produced by) • 2016: Cameraperson (Documentary) (consulting producer) • 2015: This Changes Everything (Documentary) (producer - produced by) • 2015: Incorruptible (Documentary) (consulting producer) • 2015: Cemetery of Splendour (co-producer) • 2015: The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes (executive producer) • 2014: Life Is Sacred (Documentary) (executive producer) • 2014: The Narrow Frame of Midnight (producer) • 2014: Concerning Violence (Documentary) (co-producer) • 2013: For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (executive producer) • 2013: The Welcome Table Project (TV Series documentary short) (producer) • 2012: Highway (co-producer) • 2012: The House I Live In (Documentary) (executive producer) • 2012: Shenandoah (Documentary) (executive producer) • 2011: Dum Maaro Dum (executive producer) • 2011: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Documentary) (co-producer) • 2010: The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan (Documentary) (executive producer) • 2010: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (associate producer: Louverture Films) • 2009: The Time that Remains (associate producer) • 2009: Soundtrack for a Revolution (Documentary) (producer) • 2008: Salt of This Sea (co-producer) • 2008: Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's 60th Birthday (Documentary) (executive producer) • 2008: Trouble the Water (Documentary) (executive producer) • 2006: Bamako (executive producer) • 2000: Bàttu (associate producer)
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1950
Joslyn Barnes born.
Recognition and awards
In 2025, Barnes was appointed as a member of the jury at the 78th Locarno Film Festival for Concorso Internazionale – Main Competition.

Nickel Boys cast and crew at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival screening
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Joslyn Barnes, producer and screenwriter, at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival at a Q A after a screening of the movie, Nickel Boys.
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- 1.'Strong Island's Yance Ford Makes History As First Openly Trans Filmmaker To Win At Creative Arts Emmys. Deadline.
- 2.Women Who Made the World of Filmmaking a Better Place in 2018. IndieWire. 17 December 2018.
- 3.Oscars 2018: Shape of Water leads the way with bumper 13 nominations. The Guardian. 23 January 2018.
- 4.The 2018 Oscar Nominations Are Here. The Huffington Post. 23 January 2018.
- 5.The list of nominees for the 91st Academy Awards. The Associated Press. 22 January 2019.
- 6.Georg Szalai. Locarno Film Festival Adds Carlos Reygadas, Joslyn Barnes to Rithy Panh-Led Main Jury. The Hollywood Reporter. 15 July 2025.
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