‘Moonlight’ And ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Director Barry Jenkins Says It’s (Past) Time For Hollywood To Draw From Black Authors’ Work

Jenkins says Hollywood “is also finally recognizing specifically that there is an audience for black literary adaptations: ‘It’s not only very clear there is an audience for this work, but to take it even further, there are people who are familiar with this work in its literary form — the same way people are familiar with work of non-black artists.'”