Joshua Nathan is a filmmaker, and was raised on a wheat farm in central Kansas. His films have played around the world including at the AFI Fest, Nashville Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, and the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. His feature script, "Trawler," was selected to participate in the Stowe Narrative Lab in Vermont. Joshua was awarded the Screenwriter’s Residency Program for the same script at the Bahamas International Film Festival.

Joshua curates a film night on the first and third Friday night of each month for the Los Angeles Poverty Department. Screenings, and filmmaker Q&A sessions, are held at the Skid Row Museum & Archive in downtown Los Angeles. Joshua is in development to direct his second feature film, "Real Good Times."

He lives in the El Sereno neighborhood in Los Angeles.