
Nikyatu Jusu
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Biography
Nikyatu Jusu (/nɪkˈjɑːtuː ˈdʒuːsuː/)is an American independent writer, director, producer, editor and assistant professor in film and video at George Mason University. Jusu's work centres on the complexities of Black female characters, particularly displaced immigrant women in the United States. Her work includes African Booty Scratcher (2007), Flowers (2015), Suicide By Sunlight (2019), and Nanny, which received the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nikyatu Jusu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

An anthology series featuring updated tales of horror and haunting for the digital age, inspired by the viral fan fiction of two sentence horror stories.
Two Sentence Horror Stories

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 a growing rage.
Nanny

Is horror a man’s world? You might assume so – but you won’t be thinking that way for long once you investigate the vast contribution women have made to horror movies for well over a century. In 2020, award-winning Australian critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas released the definitive book on the subject: 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018, an encyclopaedic work celebrating the many women – filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians – who have shaped the genre since the moment cinema’s light first flickered.
1000 Women in Horror

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 introduced to her estranged twin daughters.
Suicide by Sunlight

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.
Train

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.
Black Swan Theory

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 mental-health crisis.
Say Grace Before Drowning

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 conflicts with American idealism as Isatu is forced to reassess her idea of the perfect dress.
African Booty Scratcher
Plot TBA. The film is set in the universe of David Cronenberg's The Fly.
The Fly: Legacy

Film adaptation and expansion of Nikyatu Jusu's 2019 short film "Suicide by Sunlight".
Suicide by Sunlight
Sequel and franchise restarter to the original 1968 classic directed by George A. Romero
Night of the Living Dead

A revenge plot spirals out of control as two Brooklyn teens maneuver a Summer day they'll never forget.