Darian Henry

Darian Henry is a filmmaker, digital-media educator, founding member, and co-executive director of the nationally known film and digital media organization Youth FX. She has shot, directed, and produced over 50 short documentary, narrative, and experimental films.
In 2016 Darian co-founded NeXt Doc, a year-long documentary fellowship designed to bring together emerging documentary storytellers between the ages of 20-24 from diverse backgrounds across the country with award-winning documentary filmmakers to learn, share, and build their skills as they move into the next stage of their careers.

As an educator, Darian uses film and digital media as a means to empower and inspire black and brown youth in a wide range of Youth FX programs that arm them with the skills, techniques and access needed to create films based on their own realities and imagination.
Darian is currently working as an associate producer on Ira McKinley and Bhawin Suchak’s feature-length documentary film Outta the Muck which is supported by Sundance Institute and iTVS. She is also co-founder of Rogue FX, a full-service production company powered by alumni of Youth FX. Darian Henry was born in Hanover, Jamaica. She currently lives in New York.