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Jerry Henry

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Los Angeles, California, U.S

Jerry Henry is a LA-based Director/DP who received his MFA degree from UCLA's prestigious Production Program with an emphasis on Documentary and Cinematography. His award-winning…

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Jerry Henry is a LA-based Director/DP who received his MFA degree from UCLA's prestigious Production Program with an emphasis on Documentary and Cinematography. His award-winning short documentary "I Promise Africa" premiered in over 100 film festivals worldwide and won many prestigious awards, among them a Directors Guild of America Student Award. Jerry’s visual talents can be seen in the Oscar nominated documentary "Exit Through The Gift Shop" directed by Banksy, and Peabody Award winning documentary "American Revolutionary" by director Grace Lee. He lent his visual talents to help shoot the Grammy Award winning HBO doc series titled "The Defiant Ones" which chronicles the life and work of Dr. Dre. and Jimmy Iovine. Jerry contributed cinematography on the Oscar Nominated documentary short film "St. Louis Superman" by directors Smriti Mundra and Sami Khan. His most recent work is the Documentary/ Narrative hybrid adaptation of the Ta-Nehisi Coates book "Between the World and Me" directed by Kamilah Forbes for HBO Max and "High on the Hog" Season 1 directed by Roger Ross Williams for Netflix. He is recently lensed the documentary series "The 1619 Project" with the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones for Hulu/ ABC/ Disney+ and Season 2 of High on The Hog.

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2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
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2025
Teaching America
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2025
I Was Born This Way
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2024
The World According to Allee Willis
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2024
Food and Country
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2024
Leading
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2022
Racist Trees
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2022
The Picture Taker
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2022
Free Chol Soo Lee
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2022
Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl
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2021
Ferguson Rises
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2020
Between the World and Me
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2020
The Innocence Files
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2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
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2018
The Rachel Divide
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2017
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
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