Justin Weinrich is a nonfiction filmmaker and visual anthropologist whose work explores the complex relationships between humans and the non-human world. His projects have aired on National Geographic, HBO, PBS, Arte, Discovery, and Smithsonian, and his independent work has screened theatrically around the world.

In 2015, Justin founded Elephant Lake, an independent production company focused on impact-driven, experimental ethnographic and natural history filmmaking. The company's projects include the Our Animals series; ethnographic portraits of Bodh Gaya (one of Buddhism's most sacred sites) and Za'atari (one of the world's largest Syrian refugee camps); and The Burning Field (2020), a feature documentary following four young Ghanaians whose daily lives unfold inside Agbogbloshie, the world's largest e-waste dump. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at CinemAmbiente 2019 in Torino, Europe's largest environmental film festival, and is currently available to purchase here for educational use, or here for personal use..

Justin's evolving body of work continues to explore new intersections between anthropological theory and documentary experimentation, developing collaborative methodologies that honor Indigenous ways of knowing, multi-species relationships, and the agency of nature itself. His practice seeks, through film and related, intuitively designed impact campaigns, to actively participate in the creation of understanding and coexistence between humans and the natural world.

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