[6] Rhymes for Young Ghouls marked Barnaby's feature film debut.
[9] In 2015, Barnaby was invited by the National Film Board of Canada to participate in Souvenir, a collective made up of four First Nations filmmakers invited to use their archival material in order to create a short documentary.
[11] The film was named the second runner-up for the festival's Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award.
[16] Barnaby died in Montreal after a year of battling cancer on 13 October 2022.
[17][18] Following his death, the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival and Netflix launched the Jeff Barnaby Grant, a program to support new works by emerging indigenous filmmakers.