Julie Bridgham

Julie Bridgham is a recipient of both a Sundance and IFP Documentary Fellowship. She was the Director and Producer for the multi-award winning documentary feature THE SARI SOLDIERS that has screened in over 50 countries and for which she received the Human Rights Watch Nestor Almendros Prize for courage and commitment in filmmaking. She has directed and/or produced for numerous documentary series that have aired on CBS, BBC, Hulu, the Discovery Channel, TLC, and the Travel Channel, and created films for non-profits and humanitarian organizations including the United Nations World Food Programme, Oxfam, and the International Labour Organization. She was the Executive Producer for the award winning, Sundance supported documentary DRAWING THE TIGER, and recently worked on the documentary feature I AM GRETA that premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and is currently broadcast on Hulu. She was previously the Documentary Programmer for the Brooklyn Film Festival, and is a regular advisor and instructor for the Sundance Collab documentary courses. She is currently in production on a documentary feature focusing on civil rights in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, and is directing the documentary FUELED focusing on reforming the fossil fuel industry.