Jermaine Manigault is an African American director, screenwriter, and producer. The son of a New York dancer and a Philadelphia writer, Jermaine studied psychology and film studies while working on sets as a production assistant. As a P.A., Jermaine began to write and experiment with visuals and courted investors for his debut short film, Language is Dead (2017). It went on to win the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film in New York at the Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema, and Best Screenplay at the Sydney Indie Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. After returning from the European premiere of Language is Dead in 2018, Jermaine traveled to Charleston, South Carolina to visit multiple slave plantations while writing his second short film, Not Black Enough (2020). On June 2nd, 2018, Jermaine visited the Joseph Manigault Museum, the plantation on which his direct ancestors were owned, lived, and died as slaves. On that soil, the script for Not Black Enough was written.

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