FILMMAKER

Commissioned by Virgin Media for the Virgin Media Discovers Programme 2024 Official Selection for the Dublin International Film Festival 2025 THE KNIFE Written and Directed by Joy Nesbitt In Joy Nesbitt’s dark surrealist comedy, a young black woman goes for her first pregnancy scan and discovers that her child is brandishing a knife inside her womb.

Official selection for the New Irish Talent, New Shorts - Fiction Programme in the Galway Film Fleadh Official selection for the Shorts Program 2 in the Chicago Irish Film Festival Molly, a brown Irish woman, is tasked with writing a daunting letter. Over time, she finds the courage to overcome writer’s block, ultimately writing the letter and freeing herself from the burden. Director: Joy Nesbitt Producer/Writer: Grace Odumosu

Directed by Joy Nesbitt Starring: Yvonne "Peggy" Smith and Shawna Nesbitt An elderly woman shelters in place alone during a pandemic. Her daughter, who is unable to visit safely, brings her a gift to fill her absence. We develop empathy for our main character, and we see empathetic action in practice.

Directed by Joy Nesbitt Starring: Joy Nesbitt The nation poses a question to a Black feminine spectator. She meditates on that question. She moves through familiar spaces to process her answer to the question. She has no answer. The answer is grounded in a specific lived experience. We either understand or we don’t.

Directed by Joy Nesbitt Starring: Tori Gudmundsson, Laura Frustaci, Devonne Pitts, Jonathan Castillo, Shawna Nesbitt, Ruva Chigwedere, Graham Buchanan, Frederick Tyler-Macbruce and Joy Nesbitt A visual meditation on embodiment and a personal journey against body dysmorphia. We enter an uninterrupted intimate experience of studying the face of another human. We may feel watched, comforted, or disturbed by this experience. We reflect upon our own faces in relation to the faces we are seeing.

Directed by Joy Nesbitt Starring: Laura Frustaci and Joy Nesbitt A study on the development of extreme emotion. We watch an unraveling individual get pushed to her limits. She is isolated from the ones she loves and is taken for granted by everyone else. We encounter a slow boil of emotion, a stirring physical and aural transformation into abject, unbridled rage.