Joshua Bee Alafia

Bio

Joshua bee alafia started making films in high school and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in Film in 1995. Since then he has been freelancing as a Cinematographer and Editor in World Cinema. His cinematographer credits in documentaries include; Every Day Art in Cuba, We Just Tellin Stories: Rodessa Jones Medea Project, Making Tortillas with the Mayans, Besouro Preto, Behind the Green Line, the Road to Sao Tome, the Cuban Hip Hop All Stars, Havana Habibi, Dub Poet: Oku Onuora and Addis Ababa 74. His editor credits include the documentaries Juneteenth Community, Louisiana Cane, and the Sundance Jury Award Winning Wet Dreams and False Images. He has shot music videos for Luciano, Bikram Singh, King David, Boomaz and Poet, Ainsley Burrows. His film credits as writer/ director in narrative films include the Anti Vigilante, Bold As Love, Maybe Dreams Can Come True, The Seed, Se Safando Cubamor, and Lets Stay Together. With a strong dedication to youth filmmaking, Alafia has worked with the Youth Film Fellows program at the Tribeca Film Institute, helped create the film program at the Harlem School of the Arts,and is a mentor at Reel Works. joshua bee alafia resides in Brooklyn, NY.