Joy Millana is an award-winning producer-director and associate professor of film production at Missouri State University.
Her most recent feature film as producer and director, Jacob, Broken by God (2022), has won seven industry awards including a Gold Telly and has recently been picked up by Bridgestone Multimedia Global Distribution. Her directorial feature Profiled aka Premeditated (2014) has been picked up for rerelease through Leomark Studios Distribution (2019). Production begins in June 2023 for her third feature as director, When Three Become One.
In 2017, Anti-Hero Film Studios produced her Silver Telly-winning short film Dojo Girl, which has had a successful run at film festivals throughout 2018, including the Bentonville Film Festival and Moonfaze Feminist Film Journal.
She is also the producer of Dave Mack’s Cold Monsters (2023) which is currently being shopped for distribution.