---
name: "Joslyn Barnes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joslyn-barnes"
fi1m_id: "joslyn-barnes"
imdb_id: "nm0055656"
tmdb_id: 1041089
wikidata_id: "Q21693874"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:42:09.567325+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joslyn Barnes

## Identity

Joslyn Barnes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joslyn-barnes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joslyn-barnes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0055656
- **TMDB ID:** 1041089
- **Wikidata ID:** Q21693874
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joslyn_Barnes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21693874, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055656/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1041089

Producer. Born 1 January 1950.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1950
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 producing
- **Academy Awards:** 4 Oscar nominations
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joslyn_Barnes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21693874, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055656/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1041089

## Streaming the US now

- **MUBI:** [*Nickel Boys*](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Joslyn Barnes is a film producer and writer. She is president and co-founder, with actor Danny Glover, of Louverture Films, a New York-based company specialising in international arthouse fiction and feature documentaries.

She has produced or co-produced films including *Bamako* (2006), *The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975* (2011), *Cemetery of Splendour* (2015), *White Sun* (2016), *Zama* (2017), *Strong Island* (2017), *Hale County This Morning, This Evening* (2018) and *Memoria* (2021). For *Strong Island* she received an Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature; *Hale County This Morning, This Evening* brought a further Oscar nomination in the same category.

Barnes produced and co-wrote the screenplay for *Nickel Boys* (2024) with director RaMell Ross, adapted from Colson Whitehead’s novel. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1)

- *Nickel Boys* (2024), Fi1m 85, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Capernaum* (2018), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/capernaum.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Edward Said: Between Worlds* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Conbody vs Everybody* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *Our Land* (2026), Producer
- *Trillion* (2025), Producer
- *Powwow People* (2025), Consulting Producer
- *Pooja, Sir* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Harvest* (2025), Producer, Screenplay
- *Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Nickel Boys* (2024), Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md)
- *President* (2023), Producer
- *Eami* (2022), Producer
- *Crane Lantern* (2022), Producer
- *Memoria* (2021), Co-Producer
- *Prayers for the Stolen* (2021), Co-Producer
- *In Between Dying* (2021), Co-Producer
- *Gunda* (2021), Co-Producer
- *Easter Snap* (2019), Producer
- *Capernaum* (2018), Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/capernaum.md)
- *Hale County This Morning, This Evening* (2018), Producer
- *Angels Are Made of Light* (2018), Producer
- *Sollers Point* (2017), Co-Producer
- *This Is Congo* (2017), Executive Producer
- *That Summer* (2017), Producer
- *Strong Island* (2017), Producer
- *White Sun* (2016), Producer
- *Shadow World* (2016), Producer
- *Cameraperson* (2016), Consulting Producer
- *This Changes Everything* (2015), Producer
- *Cemetery of Splendor* (2015), Co-Producer
- *The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes* (2015), Executive Producer
- *The Narrow Frame of Midnight* (2014), Producer
- *Concerning Violence* (2014), Co-Producer
- *For Those Who Can Tell No Tales* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Shenandoah* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Highway* (2012), Producer
- *Dum Maaro Dum* (2011), Executive Producer
- *The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975* (2011), Producer
- *The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan* (2010), Executive Producer
- *Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives* (2010), Associate Producer
- *The Time That Remains* (2009), Associate Producer
- *Soundtrack for a Revolution* (2009), Producer
- *Salt of This Sea* (2008), Co-Producer
- *Trouble the Water* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Bamako* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Bàttu* (2000), Writer, Associate Producer
- *Touch of a Stranger* (1990), Writer
- *The Story of Documentary Film*, series, Executive Producer
- *Last Days*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Joslyn Barnes, producer and screenwriter, at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival at a Q&A after a screening of the movie, Nickel Boys.](https://film.one/media/person/10160/gallery-1a48036ef880.jpg) Joslyn Barnes, producer and screenwriter, at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival at a Q&A after a screening of the movie, Nickel Boys. — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Joslyn_Barnes%2C_producer_and_screenwriter%2C_at_the_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Joslyn_Barnes%2C_producer_and_screenwriter%2C_at_the_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joslyn Barnes, producer and screenwriter, at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival at a Q&A after a screening of the movie, Nickel Boys.](https://film.one/media/person/10160/gallery-b8d9a79eef3e.jpg) Joslyn Barnes, producer and screenwriter, at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival at a Q&A after a screening of the movie, Nickel Boys. — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Joslyn_Barnes%2C_producer_and_screenwriter%2C_at_the_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Joslyn_Barnes%2C_producer_and_screenwriter%2C_at_the_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joslyn Barnes](https://film.one/media/person/10160/gallery-24e12c48b174.jpg) Joslyn Barnes — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Joslyn_Barnes%2C_producer_and_screenwriter%2C_at_the_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_03.jpg/1280px-Joslyn_Barnes%2C_producer_and_screenwriter%2C_at_the_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Left to right: Dede Gardner, Joslyn Barnes. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Brandon Wilson. Ethan Herisse, RaMell Ross, Franklin Leonard. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/10160/gallery-31aa061d9738.jpg) Left to right: Dede Gardner, Joslyn Barnes. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Brandon Wilson. Ethan Herisse, RaMell Ross, Franklin Leonard. (2024) — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Nickel_Boys_cast_and_crew_at_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Nickel_Boys_cast_and_crew_at_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Left to right: Dede Gardner, Joslyn Barnes. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Brandon Wilson. Ethan Herisse, RaMell Ross, Franklin Leonard. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/10160/gallery-70c9b2dccc91.jpg) Left to right: Dede Gardner, Joslyn Barnes. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Brandon Wilson. Ethan Herisse, RaMell Ross, Franklin Leonard. (2024) — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Nickel_Boys_cast_and_crew_at_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Nickel_Boys_cast_and_crew_at_2024_Telluride_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 4 nominated

- 2025: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Nickel Boys*
- 2025: Best Picture (nominated), for *Nickel Boys*
- 2019: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *Hale County This Morning, This Evening*
- 2018: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *Strong Island*

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Documentary 2020: European Film Award for Best Documentary (nominated), for *Gunda*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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