DANIEL JAMAL JUDSON is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. An alum of the IFP (Gotham) Emerging Narratives Lab as writer-producer of WANDERLOST, he recently co-produced SITE with his company Cinema Foundry, served as VFX Supervisor on AMC/Allblk series DOUBLE CROSS for 4 seasons, and won festival accolades as writer-director of his short film SHELTERED, filmed in Asheville NC where he lives.
An accomplished filmmaker in a variety of roles, his work as Cinematographer; VFX Editor/Supervisor; Producer; and Director have played on AMC, HBO, MTV, BET, VH1, AllBlk, Amazon, Univision, & PBS.
When a media-psychology student lands a job with a celebrated game designer, she suddenly has the life of her dreams. They fall in love and she publishes a best-seller. But it fractures into a nightmare when she discovers his experimental VR game hijacks users’ minds to fuel its own delusion of sentience, trapping her in a deadly game of survival.
ECHO CHAMBER (former known as THE KEEPER) feature screenplay is the of Winner the Filmmatic Sci-Fi & Fantasy Award 2025, Winner of WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab 2025; Finalist in ScreenCraft Sci-fi/Fantasy and scored 9/10 on BlackList evaluation.
A home-schooled teen mistakes apophenia for a spiritual gift, but when he becomes convinced that a girl he met at a homeless shelter is marked to be trafficked to liberal elites for a satanic ritual, he launches a misguided quest to save her.
Psychological Horror
The award-winning short film SHELTERED is proof of concept for this feature.
Two Apex clones training as astronauts, share an illicit sexual awakening that shatters their obedience to Archer, the brilliant geneticist who engineered them as pilots for his mission to seed life in the mini-solar system he plans to create by igniting Jupiter into a small star.
A multi-season science fiction drama, MOON EUROPA is a sensual, cinematic, realist intrigue in the spirit of EUPHORIA, THX 1138, ZARDOZ and BLADE RUNNER. written by Daniel Jamal Judson & Christopher Bower
An enslaved African escapes into the Louisiana bayou where he must earn the respect of a native tribe and transform into a legendary warrior so he can return to fight slavers, rescue his wife, and free his people.
Based on the untold true history of Africans and Native Americans, brought together by the colonialism, banded together to fight their oppressors.
Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Semi-Finalist, Slamdance Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Semi-Finalist, American Zoetrope and
ISA’s top 100 Emerging Screenwriters
