Justin Bell is an award-winning producer in feature films, TV, and branded entertainment. He’s the CEO of Justin Bell Productions LLC – a full-service production company based in Los Angeles – and a member of the Producers Guild of America.
Currently, Bell is an executive producer on For When You Get Lost, a female-driven road trip movie about family, death, and beer, which won the Audience Award at Austin Film Festival, was released theatrically Fall 2024, and will be released on AppleTV+ and Amazon in late 2024. He’s also in post-production on Dream Big, a dramatic feature film.
In commercials, Justin’s recent projects include: New York Life, Deloitte, Shark Beauty, Grey Goose Vodka, Samsung, Old Spice featuring comedian Ronny Chieng, and two Playstation game commercials featuring Jensen Ackles and Danny Trejo. Full list of commercial clients can be found here.
Bell has produced notable indie feature films, including the low-fi superhero movie The Hyperions (2022, Saban Films/Daily Wire) starring Cary Elwes, the romantic comedy Elsa & Fred (2015, Millennium Ent.) with Academy Award-winners Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, writer/director Andrew Hyatt’s Mary of Nazareth film Full of Grace (2016, Cinedigm), and Steven J. Kung’s Asian American drama A Leading Man (2014, Mance Media, re-released by Buffalo8 in 2024).
In television, Justin produced the horror-comedy “Summoned” for Disney/Hulu/FX, and he’s an executive producer/showrunner on “Darkroom”, a 14-episode scripted series about young people navigating the darkness of their faith. As an associate producer, he creatively produced two NBC TV movies, “Field of Vision” and “Game Time” – both sponsored by P&G and Walmart – an experience that launched Justin into producing original content for global brands.
He began his career producing narrative media content for non-profit organizations, and continues to work in that space today. Non-profit clients include: The Seed Company, illumiNations, Compassion International, AWANA, World Vision, More Perfect Union, and others.
Justin is often hired as a creative marketing consultant on Hollywood studio movies that consider issue of faith, including Reagan (2024, Showbiz Direct), The Shack (2017, Lionsgate), and Son of God (2014, 20th Century Fox).
Bell is the former Director of Development & Production for Academy Award-winning producer Edward Saxon (The Silence of the Lambs). He helped Mr. Saxon produce Away We Go (2009) at Focus Features and Our Family Wedding (2010) at Fox Searchlight.
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A graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts (MFA), Bell received the USC Special Project grant, and was voted Most Outstanding Filmmaker by his peers.
Justin earned a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Fuller Theological Seminary, and is a graduate of Wheaton College (B.A.) in Illinois.
He’s the former Director of the Act One Producing & Entertainment Executive Program, and has taught film courses at Pepperdine University, Azusa Pacific University, and BIOLA University.
