Nikyatu Jusu

Nikyatu Jusu (/nɪkˈjɑːtuː ˈdʒuːsuː/)^[1] is an American independent writer, director, producer, editor and assistant professor in film and video at George Mason University. Jusu's works center on the complexities of Black female characters and in particular, 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.^[2] She has endorsed the use of Generative artificial intelligence in filmmaking and uses the technology in her work.^[3]