Known For
Camera
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, U.S
Credits
23 titles
Jerry Henry
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
Director of Photography
Teaching America
Cinematography
I Was Born This Way
Director of Photography
The World According to Allee Willis
Director of Photography
Food and Country
Director of Photography
Leading
Director of Photography
Racist Trees
Director of Photography
The Picture Taker
Director of Photography
Free Chol Soo Lee
Camera Operator
Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl
Cinematography
Ferguson Rises
Director of Photography
Between the World and Me
Director of Photography
The Innocence Files
Director of Photography
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Director of Photography
The Rachel Divide
Camera Operator
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
Director of Photography
Monument | Monumento
Director of Photography
Janeane from Des Moines
Director of Photography
This Is Where We Take Our Stand
Director of Photography
Something Other Than Other
Himself
Red Ink
Director
In My Secrecy
Director of Photography
Engaged and Underage
Producer