Josephine Decker

Josephine Decker is an English-born American filmmaker who was born in London, raised in Texas, and came to directing after studying at Princeton and making her first short, Naked Princeton, in 2005. She co-directed the documentary Bi the Way in 2008, then wrote, produced and directed her first feature, the psychological thriller Butter on the Latch, in 2013. Reviewers at Indiewire and Variety praised her debut, and Filmmaker Magazine named her among its 25 New Faces in Independent Film that year. She followed it with the thriller Thou Wast Mild and Lovely in 2014, partly funded through Kickstarter. Later features include Madeline's Madeline, which screened at Sundance and Berlin in 2018, Shirley, inspired by the life of Shirley Jackson and released in 2020, and The Sky is Everywhere, released in 2022. Her coming-of-age film Chasing Summer premiered at Sundance in 2026. She has also acted in independent films.