Joe Talbot

Director

Joe Talbot is a fifth-generation San Franciscan musician and award-winning filmmaker. His feature-length debut, "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" -- adapted from the life of childhood friend and longtime collaborator, Jimmie Fails -- won the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award, as well as a Special Jury Prize for Creative Collaboration. The New York Times' Manohla Dargis called Talbot's emerging work "heart-skipping...gorgeous and exultant.