Multimedia Producer, Writer, Documentary Photographer & Director


Working across mediums with subject-matter experts on projects of varying diversity and scale. Research, writing, collaborative field-work, root the methodology that takes particular care with archives and pattern-recognition. 


Areas of engagement include: contemporary African diasporic life, anthropocentrism, internet & media ecology, hyperactivity, globalization, youth culture, and public policy. 

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Select Affiliates

National Museum of Lagos, SHOWstudio, NOWNESS, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece, Cinema Galleggiante (Floating Cinema) Art Festival in Venice, Italy, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Aga Khan Museum, Artspace, U.N. Women’s Conference, UNESCO, Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Brooklyn Film Festival, SIMA, Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Ghana, Lagos Biennial in Nigeria. 

Education

M.A      New York University. 

B.F.A.      New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.

Other: Padi Certified Scuba Diver, M1 License

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2023 – Off the Beaten Path: Outside the Hero’s Journey

“This year our theme is Off the Beaten Path: Outside the Hero’s Journey –– Realty is more complicated, more collaborative, and more interesting than what we have come to call the Hero’s Journey. It does not follow a beginning, middle, and end, with rising action and turning points that deliver a resolution with all threads tied up neatly in a bow. Many non-fiction makers have always created work that is outside the Hero’s Journey.”  - MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute

2022

• Guest lecture at University of Cape Town. Course “Contemporary Marketing Issues” 

Presentation : The Politics of Visuals in the Age of Exponential Media & Competing Neuro-Dominance

• Guest Lecture at New York University, Gallatin. Course “Art and Storytelling for Our Future”

2022

‘Earthseed’ screens in public exhibition  with the Onassis Stegi cultural centre in Athens, Greece. 

The large-scale public art exhibition titled “Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data” is open to the public, May 23 - June 07.  

2021

2021

‘Earthseed’ shows at  Cinema Gallaggiente (Floating Cinema) art festival in Venice, Italy.

2019-2020

‘Megolonyo: With a Mother You Are Rich’ screens at the UN WOMEN’s conference. 

In 2019, Justice received a Social Impact Media Award (SIMA) for his work with women’s work collectives in Northern Uganda.

2020

Q&A Interview for ‘OKADA MAN’ with SHOWStudio. 

2020

Essay, “Many Rules to Learn”, published in paperback in “Now That We’re Men”. 

2020

‘Megolonyo: With a Mother You Are Rich’ screening for International Rural Women’s Day at the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding, UNESCO, in Seoul, South Korea. 

“MEGOLONYO: WITH A MOTHER YOU ARE RICH portrays the power of women’s solidarity and their endless endeavor to overcome the challenges they face.”

2020

‘Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time’, traveling exhibition.

Interview with Edith Ekunke, Director of Museums for National Commission for Museums and Monuments, at the National Museum of Lagos. 

‘Earthseed’ interview on NOWNESS. 

2019

‘OKADA MAN’ installation and film screening at the Lagos Biennial, hosted by WAFFLESNCREAM.  

‘I Know You So Well’ screening at Nitehawk Film Festival. 

2019

‘Maria él Diablo’ receives  Best Short Documentary nomination at the Brooklyn Film Festival. 

Earthseed, commissioned by NOWNESS, was distributed to 4.5 million subscribers.

Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s written philosophy,  Earthseed , the video poem situates life on Earth as a collective. Imperialism, prejudice and perseverance, ecological degradation, water as life and weapon, data as reality, Earthseed poses questions left unanswered around the Connected Era. Seeking to relate the Overview effect to Butler’s philosophy,  Earthseed situates life on Earth as a collective - challenging the anthropocentric views of human priority and retorting with “God is Change.”

Director, Justice Nnanna. Full credits below. Q&A on NOWNESS here. 

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August 2021, 2nd annual Cinema Gallaggiente (Floating Cinema). Venice, Italy.

May - June 2022, Onassis Stegi’s public art program: Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data. Athena, Greece.

‘I Know You So Well’ is an intimate portrait of the people who guide us into and out of this world.

A group of eleven healthcare professionals process their experience as caregivers. Together with artists Rachel Bernsen & Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, eleven strangers working as caregivers across the spectrum of healthcare created a Sound & Movement Choir.

Director Justice Nnanna rendered the piece into an emotional expression of reflections on the work they do as caregivers and its meaning in their lives.

‘I Know You So Well’ was given permission to feature the music of Academy Award Winning Composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto.

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2019, Artspace. New Haven, CT, U.S.

2019, Nitehawk Film Festival. Brooklyn, NY, U.S.