Joe Talbot is a fifth-generation San Franciscan and award-winning filmmaker. His feature-length debut, "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" -- adapted from the life of childhood friend and longtime collaborator, Jimmie Fails -- won the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award, as well as a Special Jury Prize for Creative Collaboration. The New York Times' Manohla Dargis called Talbot's emerging work "heart-skipping, astonishing and exultant" and made it the NYT Critics Pick. Rolling Stone hailed the debut feature as "the best film of 2019."