Known for Production
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.
Filmography
49 films, 1 show


Bàttu
2000 · 1h 45m
country: Unknown
The star-stubbed cast includes Issac de Bankolè as Saar, a blind beggar, and Danny Glover as a corrupt president. In this often hilarious mix of politics and superstition, the beggars hamper the tourist industry yet play a necessary role opposite the lives of devout and wealthy Muslims. The agitated Minister of Public Health and Sanitation imposes a novel way of eliminating the problem.
Touch of a Stranger
Touch of a Stranger
1990 · 1h 27m
country: Unknown
A mysterious stranger with a gun and a bullet wound turns up at the house of an old woman who is a recluse, and who unexpectedly welcomes him as her first visitor in 30 years. A relationship develops between the two, as the man becomes the son the woman lost years ago and she becomes the mother he never had.