FSU Film School alum Barry Jenkins win the Golden Globe for Moonlight

Ira Schoffel ‏@IraSchoffel 10h10 hours ago

Very cool to see FSU Film School alum Barry Jenkins win the Golden Globe for Moonlight.

 

http://news.wfsu.org/post/moonlight-film-has-florida-state-university-miami-roots

 

It's been a big year for 'Moonlight' film director Barry Jenkins. His movie about the struggles and revelations of a young black man have garnered praise throughout the film industry. The movie draws on experiences from Jenkins' own life. And while storytelling has always felt natural to him, many of the skills needed to bring his visions to screen were learned at his alma mater, Florida State University.

FSU recently ran a profile of Jenkins' time at the film school. One of his former teachers, film professor Valliere Richard Auzenne says, "his stories were always heartfelt, From the beginning, he had a gift of creating very special, real characters, which is an art. Even in his early years, his characters were always his strength, always very interesting and complicated characters. Barry wrote three-dimensional characters. They were not cardboard figures.”


http://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/2017/01/07/moonlight-shines-fsu-film-school-alums/96243104/

Jenkins reunited a team of six Florida State film school graduates to help produce “Moonlight.” He wrote the screenplay based on a play called, “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue,” and he’s admitted the coming-of-age story reminds him of his own upbringing in a drug-plagued Miami neighborhood. His father was not around, his absent mother struggled with crack addiction, and another woman helped raise him — all of those personal realities are elements in the film.

Auzenne has taught every undergraduate film student since the school was created in 1989, including the six alums who worked on “Moonlight”:
•    Barry Jenkins, director (‘03)
•    Adele Romanski, producer (‘04)
•    James Laxton, cinematographer (‘03)
•    Andrew Hevia, co-producer (‘06)
•    Nat Sanders, editor (‘02)
•    Joi McMillon, co-editor (‘03)