Juniper Johnson

Juniper Johnson is a West African-American screenwriter and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA by way of St. Petersburg, FL. Guided by a personal adaptation of Sankofa, her practice is rooted in memory work, how culture is preserved, distorted, and passed down (and who shapes it.) For Juniper, this means treating art-making as both retrieval and preservation. Across fiction and documentary, Juniper moves between the intimate and the overlooked. Their narrative work explores identity, place, and Blackness through a dramedy lens, while their documentary practice lingers with underbelly communities, what has become of Floridian preserves, Black Southern culture, and hidden culinary and cultural practices that rarely receive archival care. Their long-term vision is to collapse the distance between filmmaking and museum spaces, creating living archives where independent films exist as cultural testimony rather than ephemera.