2022Nominee
Best Director
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Sacha Jenkins
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 22, 1971
Biography
Sacha Jenkins (August 22, 1971 — May 23, 2025) was an American documentary filmmaker, producer, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures. While still in his teens, Jenkins published Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language, one of the earliest 'zines solely dedicated to "graffiti" art. In 1994, Jenkins co-founded Ego Trip magazine. In 2007, he created the competition reality program ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show, which was carried by VH1. Jenkins was most recently the creative director of Mass Appeal magazine.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2023Nominee
Best Director
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
2021Nominee
Best Director
Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James
Career Highlights
2017Highlight
Best Director
Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
2023Highlight
Best Picture
All Up in the Biz
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James
Burn Motherfucker, Burn!