Iman June Blackwell is a Malay-American film director, producer, writer, and composer with a mission to use digital media as an agent for environmental justice and the visibility of marginalized communities. She was born and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas and graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with a degree in International Affairs and Film and Media Studies.
In 2014, she was a regional finalist for the International Youth Silent Film Festival. While at Georgetown, Blackwell worked with the National Geographic Archival Library in D.C. and the U.S. Department of State in Costa Rica for their social media team. She was also chosen as 1 of 12 Fellows to develop an original series with the Unscripted Serial Storytellers Program at the Bay Area Video Coalition. Blackwell worked as a Programming Intern at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, the largest environmental film festival in the world, where she reviewed over 450 submissions for the festival’s 30th anniversary.
Blackwell interned at National Geographic for their Unscripted Series Productions team, with whom she helped produce over a dozen leading Disney+ unscripted shows from pre-production to distribution, including Explorer, Life Below Zero: First Alaskans, Photographer, Science Fair, and Trafficked.
Blackwell most recently worked on-site at FX Networks Productions & Special Projects. She supported marketing production campaigns for shows such as Alien: Earth, The Bear S3, Clipped, English Teacher, Feud S2: Capote vs. The Swans, Grotesquerie, and Shōgun. Currently based in Los Angeles, she independently directs, writes, and composes for film, social media, and music videos.