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Nikyatu Jusu is a director, writer and editor of short films and TV series, such as Nanny, Suicide by Sunlight and Two Sentence Horror Stories. She has won several awards and grants, and teaches at George Mason University.
Nov 9, 2022 · Nikyatu Jusu is a Black woman filmmaker who blends West African folklore and horror in her debut feature, Nanny. The film, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, follows a Senegalese nanny in New York and her encounters with supernatural and human threats.
Jan 28, 2022 · Nikyatu Jusu is the second Black woman and the first horror director to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her debut feature 'Nanny'. The film explores the supernatural and cultural forces that haunt a Senegalese immigrant nanny in New York.
Dec 14, 2022 · Filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu has had a wild year traversing the festival circuit with her Sundance Jury Award-winning debut feature Nanny, a showcase for her love of horror and drama that comes after...
Nov 22, 2022 · In writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s pungent, psychologically unnerving “Nanny,” the title describes a suffocating swirl of demanding job, racialized identity and terror trap for Aisha (Anna Diop),...
Feb 8, 2022 · Nikyatu Jusu and the women who produced ‘Nanny’ chronicle the journey to become the first horror film to win Sundance’s grand jury prize.
Jan 26, 2022 · West African mythology is an integral facet of Nikyatu Jusu’s filmmaking. Whether in her directorial stint on an episode of The CW’s Two Sentence Horror Stories or the melanated day-walking vampires in her short film (and 2019 festival circuit hit) Suicide by Sunlight , the Sierra Leonean-American writer/director has made it her mission to ...
