Justine Nagan

JUSTINE NAGAN is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary producer and creative media executive. She is currently Executive Vice President at Actual Films overseeing their growing slate. Recently, she produced Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (Sundance 2025) and The White House Effect (Telluride 2024.)  Prior, she EPed In Waves and War (Telluride 2024,) Make A Splash (Tribeca 2023), as well as Actual Film’s first foray into episodic production, Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever for Marvel on Disney+. 

Before joining Actual, Justine was the Executive Director of American Documentary, Inc., and an Executive Producer on its two signature series, POV (PBS) and America Reframed (World Channel.) During her tenure at the organization, AmDoc launched POV Shorts, created several Artist Emergency Funds, and showed continued excellence in its programming including several Oscar nominations, and Emmy, Peabody and DuPont wins.  Films showcased during her time at AmDoc include Through the Night, The Mole Agent, Softie, Minding the Gap, Last Men in Aleppo, Dark Money, Hooligan Sparrow and 93 Queen.  

Prior to AmDoc, Justine led Kartemquin Films as Executive Director, as well as being an Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer on films including Life Itself, The Interrupters, and The Trials of Muhammad Ali. With Kartemquin, she also directed Typeface, an award-winning documentary on American typography and graphic design. Justine has a certificate in Non-Profit Management from Harvard Business School, and a Masters from the University of Chicago in the Humanities/Cinema and Media Studies. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the PGA and the Television Academy.  Justine lives in Oakland with her family.