Staff Writer.Barry Jenkins is a filmmaker born and raised in the inner-city of Miami. After completing bachelor's degrees in film and creative writing, he relocated to Los Angeles where he worked as a director's assistant and development associate for Harpo Films. He is the writer-director of the short films My Josephine and Little Brown Boy, and after premiering at the SXSW Film Festival in March, his debut feature Medicine for Melancholy was acquired for distribution by the IFC.
