underground railroad

As 2018’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” based on the classic James Baldwin novel, and Amazon’s 2021 limited series “The Underground Railroad” have added new notches to his personal resume, Jenkins’ production company Pastel has planted a flag as a force in independent filmmaking.

“Moonlight,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “The Underground Railroad” “are of a certain time in my life and of a certain moment in my artistic development,” he said.

Part of what influenced his decision to take on the project was the near-catastrophe that brought production of “The Underground Railroad” to the verge of collapse.

By following the example of a brave New Yorker, a woman who risked her life to shepherd slaves along the Underground Railroad.

Whitehead is among the country’s most celebrated authors, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose works include “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys.”