Biography
Nikyatu Jusu is a Sierra Leonean-American independent filmmaker and Assistant Professor in Film & Video at George Mason University. Jusu's works centers the complexities of Black female characters and in particular, displaced, immigrant women in the United States. She is best known for her 2022 horror film Nanny, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Complete Filmography
Nanny
2022
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and...
Suicide by Sunlight
2019
Director, Writer
Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, finds it difficult to suppress her bloodlust when a new woman is introdu...
Flowers
2016
Director, Writer, Producer
A revenge plot spirals out of control as two Brooklyn teens maneuver a Summer day they'll never forget.
Black Swan Theory
2011
Director, Writer, Editor
A psychiatric casualty of war recently returned to the US, Sonya's imagined sense of normalcy crumbles around her; she must hunt or become the hunted.
Say Grace Before Drowning
2010
Director, Writer
Eight-year-old Hawa is reunited with her African refugee mother after six years apart—and now finds herself living with a woman in the midst of a deep...
Train
2010
Editor, Assistant Director
Late night in New York, Carl takes the Brooklyn bound F train home and runs into trouble in this thought provoking short film about fear and guilt.
African Booty Scratcher
2007
Director, Writer, Editor
Prom nears and things seem to be spiraling out of control for the typically composed Isatu. In this coming of age story, West African tradition confli...
Night of the Living Dead
N/A
Director
Sequel and franchise restarter to the original 1968 classic directed by George A. Romero
Suicide by Sunlight
N/A
Director, Writer
Film adaptation and expansion of Nikyatu Jusu's 2019 short film "Suicide by Sunlight".
The Fly: Legacy
N/A
Director, Screenplay
Plot TBA. The film is set in the universe of David Cronenberg's The Fly.