About Me

Josh Johnson is a filmmaker, visual effects supervisor, VFX Artist, and teacher with over 12 years of experience. In 2014 (RICH HILL), he worked on a documentary that required complex invisible VFX; this film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2017 (A GHOST STORY), 2018 (THE LONG DUMB ROAD), 2019 (NATIVE SON) and 2020 (OMNIBOAT: A FAST BOAT FANTASIA) he worked on films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He’s currently in post on his short film that was selected as Project of the Day on IndieWire. In 2019, he finished post on a feature film that he VFX Supervised called, Native Son, which was produced by A24 and was bought by HBO (Critics’ Choice Nominee) at the Sundance premiere in 2019. He was also a 2nd unit plate photographer and lead VFX artist on this film. He also worked on the Emmy Nominated HBO documentary ABORTION: STORIES WOMEN TELL.

He has given multiple presentations at SIGGRAPH, SXSW, and NAB. His work has been featured in a variety of places such as Vanity Fair, Indiewre, No Film School, 3D World Magazine, Nerdist, Studiodaily, MAXON, Its Art Mag, Post Magazine, and Digital Production Magazine. Josh also teaches an adjunct film class at Lindenwood Univsery.