Raven JOHNSON

Raven Johnson is a Liberian-American filmmaker originally from Minnesota. She recently graduated with her MFA from NYU Tisch's Graduate Film program as a Writer/Director. During her time at Tisch, she also crewed on over a dozen short film productions around the world, which afforded her the opportunity to travel abroad for the first time. In 2017, Raven was named one of AT&T’s Emerging Filmmakers for her short film, TWEEN, which also won that year's Student Choice Award at the 41st Cleveland International Festival and had its international premiere at last year's 62nd BFI London Film Festival. Currently, Raven is hard at work finishing her NYU Graduate Film thesis, THE TRUCKER, a short film about a West African immigrant truck driver traveling back home through the Midwest. She is also developing her first feature, RUBY: PORTRAIT OF A BLACK GIRL LIVING IN THE SUBURBS, based on the award-winning short film TWEEN.