Julius Ewungwo Ewungkem Jr. is a Cameroonian-American filmmaker whose work is rooted in lived experience, tracing identity and memory with the goal of placing African bodies in spaces of emotional depth. His films often begin with questions he cannot resolve, using image, sound, and structure to create spaces where audiences can sit inside that tension.

He first told stories through writing, publishing an essay in The New York Times at 18, and has since made film his primary mode of communication.

Ewungwo is a graduate of Harvard University, a 2024 NBCUniversal Original Voices Accelerator Fellow, and a 2024 Gotham EDU Film and Media Career Development Fellow. He is building AOTA, a creative collective focused on collaborative, emotionally driven storytelling, and Ashia Teboh, an ode to the lineage before him. He is based in New York.