Joshua Johnson

Josh is a director, visual effects supervisor/artist, and professor with over 17 years of experience in the film and television industry. Some of his feature-film credits include "Rich Hill" (The Orchard, 2014 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner), a documentary that required complex invisible visual effects; "A Ghost Story" (A24, 2017 Sundance premiere); "Duplicity" (Universal Pictures), "The Long Dumb Road" (Universal Pictures, 2018 Sundance premiere); "One & Two" starring Timothée Chalamet and Kiernan Shipka (2015 Berlin and SXSW) and "Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia" (2020 Sundance premiere). Most recently, he worked on "The Birthday Cake," starring Ewan McGregor, "Acidman" (2022 Tribeca premiere) starring Thomas Haden Church, Disney's HOCUS POCUS 2, and BLOOD FOR DUST (2023 Tribeca). Josh's commercial credits include work for Microsoft, Samsung, Converse, Taco Bell, MTV, and Smithsonian, and music videos for Lil Nas X and Sia.

In 2019, he finished post on a feature film that he VFX Supervised called Native Son, which A24 produced, shot by Oscar-nominated DP Matthew Libatique, and was bought by HBO (Critics' Choice Nominee) at the Sundance premiere in 2019. He was also a 2nd unit plate photographer and lead VFX artist on this film. He also worked on the Emmy Nominated HBO documentary "Abortion: Stories Women Tell". In addition, "Monument," a short film he co-directed, recently won best showcase film, best drama, best narrative under 20 minutes, best visual effects, and best use of music at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. He has given multiple presentations at SIGGRAPH, SXSW, and NAB. His work has been featured in various places such as Vanity Fair, Variety, Indiewre, Rogerebert.com, No Film School, VFX Voice, 3D World Magazine, Nerdist, Studiodaily, MAXON, Its Art Mag, Post Magazine, and Digital Production Magazine. He graduated with his MFA in film from Vermont College of Arts in October 2021 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Film at Webster University.