Julia Camara
Julia Camara is an award-winning Brazilian screenwriter and filmmaker with a BA in Cinema from Columbia College Hollywood and an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. She won a Telly Award for Occupants (aka Alterverse) and Best Experimental Film for her directorial debut, In Transit. Her writing credits include Area Q and Open Road.
Camara is a Professor of Cinematic Arts at Keiser University and teaches Screenwriting at UCLA Extension and Sundance Co//ab. She authored That’s What She Wrote, a collection on screenwriting and filmmaking. Her indie thriller Stronghold premiered at the Pan African Film Festival and won the 2023 Harlem International Film Festival’s Mira Nair Award for rising female filmmaker.