An Afternoon with Barry Jenkins

Join Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins for an in-depth conversation about his filmmaking approach and the process of bringing the writing of James Baldwin to the screen in his latest feature, If Beale Street Could Talk (featured in our Main Slate). His much-anticipated follow-up to Moonlight, Beale Street is a visually poetic adaptation of Baldwin’s Harlem-set 1974 novel.

In conversation with Darryl Pinckney, a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of the novel High Cotton (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and nonfiction works Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature. He is a recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.