Joedan Okun

Joedan Okun is a Producer and the Head of Production at Our Time Projects, a New York production company founded by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director/producer Matthew Heineman. Joedan is an Executive Producer of The First Wave, a feature documentary made with Participant Media that will be released by Neon and National Geographic Documentary Films in Fall 2021. Before that, Joedan was a Producer of The Boy From Medellin, a feature documentary that premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Earlier in the year, he was an Executive Producer on the second season of The Trade, a 4 part documentary series on human smuggling that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. For Our Time Projects, Joedan was also an Executive Producer of A Private War, a narrative feature on legendary war reporter Marie Colvin that was nominated for 2 Golden Globes, as well as a Supervising Producer on the first season of The Trade which was honored by the International Documentary Association as the Best Episodic Series of 2018. Before that, Joedan co-produced the DGA award-winning City of Ghosts, Matthew Heineman's feature documentary that premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. He also worked as a Field Producer on the Peabody Award winning Time: The Kalief Browder Story, a six part documentary series from Executive Producer Jay-Z that also screened at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Prior to that, he produced Maggie Betts' documentary, The Carrier, an intimate look at the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission that was broadcast by PBS. Additional credits include work on the Academy-Award nominated Cartel Land, the Raf Simons profile Dior And I, the Cuban racing film Havana Motor Club, the PTSD documentary Buried Above Ground, the Academy-Award nominated documentary short Why Cant We Be A Family Again and the Emmy Award winning documentary The Pill. Joedan graduated with Honors from Wesleyan University.