Sacha Jenkins, the journalist and filmmaker, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. In response to studies, Jenkins was 54.
Jenkins died Friday morning at his house resulting from problems from a number of system atrophy, his spouse, Raquel Cepeda, instructed The Hollywood Reporter.
Born in Philadelphia, Jenkins had an intensive journalistic profession throughout a number of publications. He started his profession by founding one of many first magazines about graffiti artwork known as, Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language. He co-founded the hip-hop newspaper, Beat Down together with his childhood good friend and journalist and TV producer, Elliott Wilson.
After that, the pair based the hip-hop and skateboarding journal, Ego Journey. Jenkins has additionally written for Spin, Rolling Stone and beforehand served as a music editor and writer-at-large for Vibe.
Within the filmmaking world, Jenkins directed such movies as Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, Recent Dressed and All Up within the Biz, in regards to the late Biz Markie, writing the latter two. He’s additionally labored on the docuseries, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Males, which earned him an Emmy nomination for greatest writing for a nonfiction program.
His further credit embody Every part’s Gonna Be All White, Round The Method, Supreme Group, Technology Lifeless: The Strolling Lifeless Fan Documentary, You’re Watching Video Music Field, Rolling Like Thunder, Cypress Hill: Insane within the Mind, Metropolis Ladies Level Clean Interval and Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos.
For the documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, which he directed and produced, Jenkins instructed the Movie Academy of Armstrong, “He’s a really particular particular person — not a standard particular person — who had an actual foresight and actual perception and was simply the essence of creativity. I play music. I do various things. And I’m impressed by seeing somebody who can do it on such a excessive stage. He was impressed by creativity. That was his gasoline.”