Sanford Jenkins Jr.

Sanford Jenkins Jr.

Birth : , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

History

Sanford Jenkins is an Oakland-based artist and filmmaker. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he earned a BA at Morehouse College and an MFA in Film and Television Production at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. His award-winning short films have played at international film festivals including BlackStar, Camerimage, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Filmfest Dresden and Palm Springs, and have been supported by Directors Notes, NoBudge and Vimeo. Sanford is a recipient of a 2017 DGA Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in A Craftsman, a 2018 Small But Mighty Arts micro-grant, and a 2019 mentorship through the Half Television Directing Program. He is currently developing the narrative feature Joy and Pain, supported by Film Independent, IFP, and the San Francisco Film Society.

Profile

Sanford Jenkins Jr.

Movies

A Craftsman
A Craftsman
Director
Overcome with grief, a rural woodworker builds a coffin to join his wife.
Color of November
Color of November
Producer
"Color of November" is a contemporary portrait of the relationship between two young women in the month of November in Poland. It is a hybrid narrative-doc short that explores cross border perspectives on the relationship between identity, space and memory in the post globalization era.