Oscar winning director Barry Jenkins is joining forces once again with production studio A24 for All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. According to Deadline sources, producing the Raven Jackson directed feature will be Jenkins’ production company, PASTEL. Dirt Roads will make for A24’s first time reuniting with Jenkins and producer Adele Romanski since Moonlight; also marking Jackson’s first in feature directing. Producing is The Artisan‘s Maria Altamirano. Barry Jenkins A24 Reteam Dirt Roads Taste Salt
Dirt Roads is said to chronicle decades in the life of a Black woman in rural Tennessee; no further details have been confirmed. Jackson’s screenplay was vetted by Jenkins personally for Indie Memphis’ 2019 Black Filmmaker Residency in Screenwriting and was amongst the five films selected for the Ikusmira Berriak Residency.
Since his 2017 Oscar win, Jenkins’ banner PASTEL has recently produced the critically acclaimed film Never Rarely Sometime Always. On the television side, Pastel signed a first-look television deal with Amazon this year, slating the studio to develop and produce the new series The Underground Railroad. Jenkins is set to direct all 10 episodes.
Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee whose work explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, as well as the body’s relationship to nature. The artist has two films currently streaming on the Criterion Channel; Nettles and A Guide to Breathing Underwater. The New York Times, TriQuarterly, CALYX, Kweli, Phantom Limb, and PANK have published Jackson’s work as well as her recently published poetry chapbook little violences.
Barry Jenkins A24 Reteam Dirt Roads Taste Salt
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