Joshua Boshell
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Just a dude telling one story at a time. Filmmaker, Boom Operator, Video Editor & all-around Nerd.
Joshua is a filmmaker who writes and directs content out of a passion for storytelling, world building, and sharing his values of friendship, loyalty and perseverance with others. His past projects have been selected for film festivals such as Columbia’s Take 1 and MidWest WeirdFest. He’s currently in post-production with two projects he wrote and directed - his film school thesis short film ONE O
03/30/2026
Had an absolute blast at yesterday where we screened a music video I directed: “Poetry In Chicago”
It was so wonderful to see familiar faces, filmmakers and to watch all of the other amazing films in our time block and the previous time block—most notably .film “Bored” “Dead Drop” and “Kings”
Thanks again to my crew for Poetry In Chicago:
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Stay tuned for more projects and life updates 🤙
03/20/2026
Kway La Soul: Poetry In Chicago had been nominated for Best Music Video at 🎬 Get Tickets to see on 3/29 in Block N, link in bio.
We are humbled over here on the production team—
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Thank you
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03/03/2026
Kway La Soul: Poetry In Chicago is officially screening at on Sunday 3/29 in Block N!
Get tickets to see the film in it’s home city of Chicago, link in bio
Thanks to the festival team as well as all of the amazing people who’ve made this project possible:
The one and only
DP and film magician
Masters of film development and scanning
02/14/2026
Kway La Soul: Poetry In Chicago has been officially selected to screen at the legendary United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival (part of ).
Get your tickets to see the film online or in person 2/21/26, link in bio.
Thanks to Al Nigrin and the festival team for considering our project, to for the amazing development and scanning of our reels, and to our wonderful DP for making all the technical aspects of filming work like magic ✨
01/24/2026
I’ve taken to making collage and remix art over the past couple of years, specifically for my playlist cover art. I make a “mixtape” every spring, summer, and autumn, so there is opportunity to make a lot of these. Looking to lead a very creative 2026.
If you like my art, I might be persuaded to make album artwork 😉 my DMs are open
I’ve made movie posters too, I’ll make another post about those.
01/01/2026
Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave
Without leaving a piece of you 🎶
Goodbye 2025 and thanks for all the fish!
So many friends joined me along the way. Thank you to all, and to all a Happy New Year 🎊
Some stats and highlights:
-205 unique movies watched
-88 screenplay pages written
-Directed 3 music videos for and
-Edited 3 short films, started editing my first feature (doc)
-Turned 30
-Screened my movie .somewhere.film in Hollywood, first time screening a movie there
-Screen projects at
-Worked sound on .in.my.head with again
-Co-lectured at
-Demoed a boom thanks to the one and only
-Adventured to for the first time
-Experienced for the first time
-Trekked to the new home with .s.evans
-Lived a dream with at the
-Thanksgiving with
Coming in 2026 (and onwards):
-3+ new music videos (TBA)
-Complete editing on my feature doc
-Finish painting my warhammer army
-Direct my first feature
See you in the new year 😉
#2026
I took a lot of inspiration from Spielberg and Kubrick for the music video I directed for “Cut You Out.” (Watch full video on YouTube, link in bio)
I even reverse-engineered the slitscan effect from 2001: A Space Oddysey (with After Effects instead of the wizardry they used back in the day).
From Wikipedia:
“The slit-scan photography technique is a photographic and cinematographic process where a moveable slide, into which a slit has been cut, is inserted between the camera and the subject to be photographed…
…Originally used in static photography to achieve blurriness or deformity, the slit-scan technique was perfected for the creation of spectacular animations. It enables the cinematographer to create a psychedelic flow of colors. Though this type of effect is now often created through computer animation, slit-scan is a mechanical technique.
John Whitney developed it for the opening credits of the Hitchcock film Vertigo. After he sent some test sequences on film to Stanley Kubrick, the technique was adapted by Douglas Trumbull for 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 for the “star gate” sequence, which required a custom-built machine.”
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09/24/2025
They say today is the first day of fall…so here’s all of summer 🏖️
To many more shenanigans with the best of friends!
Stay civil y’all
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