Joey Huertas

Joey Huertas (also known as Jane Public) is an American experimental film and sound artist working in a form he calls "docufessional," combining personal cinema, live performance, spoken word, and short stories. He also works for New York State as a forensic social worker.

Education Huertas holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase's Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film, and a master's degree from the Hunter College School of Social Work. where it was among the festival's award winners, and where festival director Owen Shapiro called Huertas a "genius".

Huertas was executive director of the Millennium Film Workshop from 2015 to 2022. He is listed as executive director in the Spring 2019 issue of the Workshop's Millennium Film Journal. From 2017 to 2019, he organized the Workshop's open-screening program in rented spaces under the name "HIJACK Open Screenings". In February 2022, Huertas was among the Millennium Film Workshop members who worked with MoMA curator Ron Magliozzi to organize New York City Symphonies of the Millennium Film Workshop, a film series marking MoMA's acquisition of the Millennium Film Workshop and Howard Guttenplan Collections. Joe Wakeman succeeded him as executive director in 2022.

In January 2025, CineSalon Online named Huertas its second CineSalon Online Artist, one of six artists featured in its annual awards.

He also interviewed Bundy's mother, Louise Bundy. In Cathy Scott's biography of Rule, First Lady of Murder, Huertas says Louise Bundy was hurt that Rule, who lived in the same region and updated The Stranger Beside Me through several later editions, had never reached out to her.

Filmography 330.20 (2006) Nice People (2008) Homewrecka (2010)