Biography

Justin Joseph Hall is a multilingual Director and Editor with 15 years of experience in New York. As an Editor he’s had repeated success in both fiction & non-fiction with projects picked up by HBO, Top 10 on Netflix, as well as being awarded at The Emmys & the Tribeca Film Festival.

A son of two teachers from Minnesota, Justin’s smooth, melancholic juxtapositions create beauty from chaos. Discovering new perspectives that reveal the world we live in captivates and drives him in life and work. He became fluent in French after seeing Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), learned Spanish for love, Portuguese for family, and married into Italian. His deep knowledge of cinematic history allows him to dig fresh space within media’s diverse landscape.

As a Director, Justin evokes emotions and spurs thought through fiction and non-fiction works like Artist & the City (2021), his docu-series on creative careers, won 6 awards including the Audience Award for Best Series at YoFiFest. Prologue (2020) is a surreal exploration of relationships and miscommunication winning Best of Awards at festivals like the Manhattan Film Festival. He’s currently editing his first feature, Frames of Reference which explores 7 astonishingly diverse schools in 6 countries encountering immigrants, outlaws, and other communities cultivating kids' capabilities.

As an Editor, Justin leans into the feelings of the characters in his scenes, creating empathy for viewers: what they see is what they feel. Examples of success include pitching and developing Axios (2018-2021) as Senior Editor for the Emmy-winning documentary series, The Top 10 Netflix mini-series American Godfathers: The Five Families, & the narrative short, Abuela’s Luck (2018) which was picked up by HBO and is slated to be adapted into a full-length feature. His mastery of post-production shines when carving compelling narratives from raw, vérité footage, or using archival to blend words to set the tone in historical documentaries.
- IMDb mini biography by: All Communications