Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy (2008), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. He is also a member of the Chopstars collective as a creative collaborator.
I saw how she used place and space and people and didn't create narratives. She just allowed these elements to exist with one another and then found the narrative in the way that they existed with one another.