About

Daniel Jamal Judson is a screenwriter and director living in Asheville NC, where he made his short film SHELTERED.

He is an alum of the IFP (Gotham) Emerging Narratives Lab with a distributed, indie-horror feature he co-wrote/produced and his work for hire as an award winning Cinematographer; VFX Editor/Supervisor; Producer; and Director have played on AMC, HBO, MTV, BET, VH1,m AllBlk, Univision, and PBS.

His short film SHELTERED starring Tim Johnson and Olivia Hawthorne premiered at the Beverly Hills Film Festival this spring:        

“Daniel Jamal Judson’s SHELTERED features a brilliant lead performance, from Tim Johnson as a lonely young man whose fixation on a girl he meets at a homeless shelter, the filmmaker dazzlingly builds moment by moment to land ultimately in an almost operatic scene straight out of current headlines.”

His unproduced original screenplays have placed in major competitions: Semi-finalist in Austin Film Festival; top 10% in Nicholl; Finalist in Screencraft Sci-Fi; Semi-Finalist in Slamdance; Semi-Finalist in American Zoetrope.

His documentary “In The Hollow Square” is currently in production.

For examples of commercial work, please visit Digital Media Foundry