Jerry Henry
Producer, Regisseur
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.
Cinematografie
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| 2000 |
| 2026 | Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History · as Director Of Photography |
| 2025 | High Horse: The Black Cowboy · as Cinematographer |
| 2025 | BTS Army: Forever We Are Young · as Cinematographer |
| 2025 | Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time · as Cinematographer |
| 2024 | The World According to Allee Willis · as Director Of Photography |
| 2024 | Black Twitter: A People's History · as Cinematographer |
| 2024 | James Brown: Say It Loud · as Cinematographer |
| 2023 | Food and Country · as Director Of Photography |
| 2023 | Born in Synanon · as Cinematographer |
| 2023 | Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop · as Cinematographer |
| 2023 | The 1619 Project · as Cinematographer |
| 2022 | Racist Trees · as Director Of Photography |
| 2022 | Not Just a Girl · as Cinematographer |
| 2022 | The American Presidency with Bill Clinton · as Cinematographer |
| 2022 | Jeannette · as CinematographerOp Plex |
| 2022 | More Than Robots · as Cinematographer |
| 2021 | Through Our Eyes · as Cinematographer |
| 2021 | Ferguson Rises · as Director Of Photography |
| 2021 | High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America · as Cinematographer |
| 2020 | Between the World and Me · as Director Of Photography |
| 2020 | Asian Americans · as Cinematographer |
| 2020 | The Innocence Files · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America · as Cinematographer |
| 2019 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | Grass is Greener · as Director Of Photography |
| 2018 | The Rachel Divide · as Cinematographer |
| 2018 | Ugly Delicious · as Cinematographer |
| 2018 | Uncensored · as CinematographerOp Plex |
| 2018 | Muslimah's Guide to Marriage · as Cinematographer |
| 2017 | Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics · as Director Of Photography |
| 2016 | Girl Unbound: The War to Be Her · as Cinematographer |
| 2016 | Black Market: Dispatches · as Cinematographer |
| 2015 | City of Gold · as Cinematographer |
| 2015 | Transcendent · as Cinematographer |
| 2014 | Sex On// · as Cinematographer |
| 2013 | American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs · as Cinematographer |
| 2013 | Raising Whitley · as Cinematographer |
| 2012 | Janeane from Des Moines · as Director Of Photography |
| 2012 | Celebrities at Home · as Cinematographer |
| 2006 | Brasilintime: Batucada com Discos · as Cinematographer |
| 2006 | No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent' · as Cinematographer |
| 2006 | King of Cars · as Field Producer |
| 2005 | The Grace Lee Project · as Cinematographer |
| 1999 | Independent Lens · as Cinematographer |
| 1998 | True Life · as Field Producer |
| 1993 | Modern Marvels · as Cinematographer |
| 1992 | HBO First Look · as Cinematographer |
| 1988 | P.O.V. · as Cinematographer |
| 1987 | Eyes on the Prize · as Cinematographer |