Julia Haslett

Roles: Director

Julia Haslett is a British-American filmmaker who makes expressionistic documentaries about contemporary and historical subjects. Her films have played around the world at festivals, theatres, universities, and on television. Her last film, An Encounter with Simone Weil, premiered at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), won the Special Founders Prize at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival, and was a New York Magazine Critic’s Pick. She is producer/director of the highly acclaimed Worlds Apart series about cross-cultural medicine, and producer of the companion documentary Hold Your Breath (PBS). Julia has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony, IFP Documentary Lab, and VCCA. She was a Filmmaker-in-Residence at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics and is currently an assistant professor of media production at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.