Photo of Barry Jenkins
Photo of Barry Jenkins

Barry Jenkins

“The first book I read in undergrad about creative writing was Anne Lamont’s 'Bird by Bird', and I’m a really big fan of shitty first drafts. I just plow through a first draft, because the real writing is definitely the rewriting. So I just like to get things down and get through that first draft.”

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    MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY

    BARRY JENKINS United States, 2008

    More than a calling card for the Oscar®-winning Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ feature debut heralded the arrival of a deeply impassioned vision. A yearning portrait of modern Blackness in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy is a captivatingly authentic tale of hesitant love and urban malaise.

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