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Julie Bergman Sender

Roles: Producer

Julie Bergman Sender has a unique mix of experience: as a Hollywood Studio Executive, as a producer of feature films and independent documentaries – including an Academy Award nominee – as well as creating groundbreaking and innovative content, social and viral campaigns online, on the air, on radio and on the ground.

Most recently she served as Executive Producer of Harmony, A New Way of Looking at Our World, a film and primetime television special produced in collaboration with HRH The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles).

In addition to producing studio and feature films, Julie is Executive Producer of The Garden, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary, and Harmony, which looks at solutions to the global environmental and economic crises, won a Cinema for Peace Green Award during the Berlin Film Festival – and is scheduled for release internationally in the fall of 2011. www.theharmonymovie.com

Julie also put together the unprecedented global partnerships for Harmony, including an alliance with TckTckTck.org, an international consortium of environmental and social groups with membership totaling in the tens of millions of members.

Julie and her husband Stuart Sender are partners in Balcony Films, Inc., a Los Angeles-based media production and consulting firm.  Balcony Films award-winning content and public service campaigns often feature well-known personalities actors and performers.

Julie has been invited by the U.S. State Department to travel to the Middle East and speak about the impact of women, technology, new media and storytelling at conferences in Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. She also blogs for the Huffington Post.

Julie lives in Los Angeles with her husband Stuart and their daughter Emily.

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