Justine Beed

Justine Beed is a writer-director born in Washington DC, and raised in Moscow, Windhoek, Ellicott City, Mexico City, Asunción, Tokyo, and Cairo. After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in Anthropology and Creative Writing, she moved to LA — both the strangest and most familiar place she’s ever lived. There, she’s worked as a writer but made a living as a background actor, script reader, personal assistant, podcast writer, and after-school teacher. Her global upbringing and love of irony inform her screenplays and short films, which are all feminist, genre-bending coming-of-age stories. While completing her MFA in Film and TV Production at USC, she was awarded the Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize by the Museum of the Moving Image and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and also participated in the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab. She recently pitched LA FORZA as part of the Sloan Science and Technology Project Pitch at TIFF ’24.