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Sacha Jenkins, a hip-hop journalist and documentarian known for Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (2019) and Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (2022), has died. He was 53.

Deadline can confirm the Emmy nominee’s death after his wife Raquel Cepeda asked fans to “please respect our family’s privacy during this difficult moment” as they prepare an official statement.

Born August 22, 1971 in Philadelphia, Jenkins launched the graffiti zine Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language in 1989, and the groundbreaking hip-hop newspaper Beat Down shortly after. He co-founded the hip-hop magazine Ego Trip in 1994, which also launched the VH1 reality series The (White) Rapper Show in 2007.

As a documentary filmmaker, Jenkins spoke to Deadline when he made his directorial debut at Sundance Film Festival with the 2015 urban fashion exploration Fresh Dressed.

“It’s so amazing how there’s so much love and respect for storytelling,” he said of the Park City, Utah film festival. “Before I did this,...

Sacha Jenkins, the co-founder of Resurgent Pictures and a documentarian who worked on films about Wu-Tang Clan and Louis Armstrong, has died. He was 54.

News of Jenkin’s death was announced by several outlets Friday and Saturday. His wife, filmmaker Raquel Cepeda, asked for privacy in a post shared on Instagram on Friday, May 23.

“Please respect our family’s privacy during this difficult moment and refrain from posting before we as a Family get the opportunity to make a formal statement,” the post read.

Jenkins was a renowned punk and hip-hop journalist and documentarian. He stated the newsletter Hip-Hop Beatdown in 1992 before founding Ego Trip in 1994 alongside Elliott Wilson. The pair released 13 issues of the magazine as well as books, which spawned VH1 TV series “Ego Trip’s The White Rapper Show” and “Miss Rap Supreme.”

He also created the four-part Wu-Tang documentary “Of Mics and Men,” which was released...

“Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” documentarian Sacha Jenkins is dead. His wife Raquel Cepeda confirmed his passing on Instagram in a post asking for privacy for their family at this time.

Hailing from Philadelphia and born in 1971, Jenkins began his career as a journalist before becoming an acclaimed documentarian. He founded Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language, an early magazine devoted to graffiti art, and co-founded hip-hop magazine Beat Down as well as the alt-culture magazine Ego Trip.

Jenkins was the kind of journalist for whom making the transition to documentary filmmaking was a natural one, and a hip-hop sensibility infused his film work — either directly as in his 2015 directorial debut “Fresh Dressed” about hip-hop fashion or the 2019 miniseries “Wu-Tang: Of Mics and Men,” for which he was Emmy nominated, or more in terms of attitude, such as having Nas narrate Satchmo’s letters in Apple TV+’s “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues.

Sacha Jenkins, the hip-hop journalist, filmmaker, and historian who co-founded the seminal Nineties magazine Ego Trip, died on Friday. He was 53.

Rolling Stone has confirmed Jenkins’ death. Jenkins’ wife, Raquel Cepeda, told The Hollywood Reporter that the cause was complications from multiple system atrophy.

Jenkins’ output was multifaceted and vast. As a journalist, he started underground zines; wrote for and edited prominent publications like Vibe, Rolling Stone, and Spin (He was currently creative director of Mass Appeal); and profiled major artists across various genres. He penned several books, many of...

Sacha Jenkins, the journalist and filmmaker, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. According to reports, Jenkins was 54.

Jenkins died Friday morning at his home due to complications from multiple system atrophy, his wife, Raquel Cepeda, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Born in Philadelphia, Jenkins had an extensive journalistic career across several publications. He began his career by founding one of the first magazines about graffiti art called, Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language. He co-founded the hip-hop newspaper, Beat Down with his childhood friend and journalist and TV producer, Elliott Wilson.

After that, the pair founded the hip-hop and skateboarding magazine, Ego Trip. Jenkins has also written for Spin, Rolling Stone and previously served as a music editor and writer-at-large for Vibe.

In the filmmaking world, Jenkins directed such films as Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, Fresh Dressed and All Up in the Biz, about the late Biz Markie,...

Sacha Jenkins and Raquel Cepeda’s Resurgent Pictures has partnered with Imagine Documentaries to develop and co-produce film, television and documentaries.

The partnership with the nonfiction division of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment and Resurgent Pictures is a multi-year agreement.

Headed by Sara Bernstein, Imagine Documentaries recently co-produced Jenkins’ “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues.” The Apple TV+ docu, which debuted at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival in 2022, explores the life and art of the legendary jazz performer.

“We’ve had an empowering experience with Imagine and are delighted to be working with them on future projects,” Jenkins and Cepeda said in a joint statement. “We believe our companies share a commitment to pushing the boundaries of storytelling, and this collaboration will amplify our creative capabilities. Having their support is just killer.”

Jenkins and Cepeda, who are married, launched Resurgent Pictures in 2022 as a boutique production company that develops and produces documentary,...

Author Raquel Cepeda once said, "The role of hip-hop journalists is to document hip-hop with integrity." Fifty years ago, that esteemed role did not yet exist, for the culture was too young and too niche to find its way into literary archives and journalistic coverage. But seeing how far hip-hop has come, times have changed, and so have the rules for those documenting it - namely, us women.

The role of women hip-hop journalists, unfortunately by today's standards, is not just to report on the culture earnestly. Thanks to sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny, we don't get that luxury. Our skills and knowledge are always under a microscope in this "boys' club," as we've oftentimes been seen as the ill-informed who stumbled our way into this space and not as the revered who helped build, refine, and make it better; as those who've made it safer to tell ours and others' stories.

List features screenplays by US-Egyptian filmmaker Dina Amer, Nigerian screenwriter Onyinye Egenti and Chinese-us director Eris Qian.

Paris-based talent platform Wscripted has unveiled its second Cannes Screenplay List showcasing a selection of scripts by female and non-binary writers.

This year’s list, which has been created in partnership with streaming service Mubi, features 25-English-language and six French-language feature scripts available for option or financing, by women screenwriters from France, Nigeria North America and the UK.

The selected talents include US-Egyptian filmmaker Dina Amer, Nigerian screenwriter Onyinye Egenti and Chinese-us director Eris Qian.

Amer broke out internationally in 2021 her first feature...

Doc NYC, America’s largest documentary festival and staple of the New York film community, announced the lineup for its 11th edition, running online November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. The program includes new films about John Belushi, Pope Francis, Bill T. Jones, Jamal Khashoggi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Zappa, and many more. The 2020 festival lineup includes 107 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 23 World Premieres, 12 international or North American premieres, and 7 US premieres. Fifty-seven features (53% of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by Bipoc directors (34% of the feature program).

World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...