Biography
Joslyn Rose is an Emmy®-nominated director, award-winning filmmaker, producer, and writer working across both narrative and non-fiction storytelling. Her work spans scripted films, documentaries, and digital series, with films featured on Showtime, Paramount, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Starz, and Lionsgate. Her projects have premiered at festivals including Sundance, Essence, and Urbanworld. She was named a finalist for the Academy Gold Women's Fellowship under the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Joslyn's feature-length studio directorial debut, Stand (Showtime/Paramount+), an Emmy®-nominated documentary, explores the extraordinary journey of activist and basketball prodigy Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. The film features Steph Curry, Mahershala Ali, Ice Cube, Shaquille O'Neal, and others, and was nominated for a Sports Emmy® Award for Outstanding Feature Length Documentary.
Her narrative short films have earned international acclaim. Her shorts have premiered at Sundance London, won Best Short at the American Film Awards and TopShorts’ Best Female Director, honors from the Berlin Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Awards, and won Best Director at the LA Independent Women Film Awards. Her earlier short Umi’s Heart, starring Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali, was honored at the One Nation Film Festival.
Joslyn's has directed and produced music and social justice projects featuring President Barack Obama, Megan Thee Stallion, Common, Nick Cannon, and Snoop Dogg. Her credits also include collaborations with Uninterrupted, BET, MTV, and Common's Imagine Justice, as well as the documentary Tale of the Tape, exploring the legacy of the mix tape in hip hop and featuring J. Cole, Wiz Khalifa, and Kendrick Lamar.
Joslyn has been invited as a guest speaker by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its Gold Rising program and has served as a judge for both the Emmy® Awards and the Webby Awards. She is a member of Women in Film (WIF) and the Alliance of Women Directors. She has guest-hosted at USC's School of Cinematic Arts and, through Starz's Take The Lead initiative, curated panels amplifying underrepresented voices in entertainment.
