DIRECTORS

Jules Rosskam is an internationally award-winning filmmaker, educator and 2021 Creative Capital Awardee. His most recent feature-length hybrid documentary, Desire Lines, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it also received the NEXT Jury Award. Manohla Dargis of the New York Times called it a film with “intelligence and heart.” Previously, his feature-length documentary, Paternal Rites (2018), premiered at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and went on to win several festival awards. Joshua Bursting of Criterion Cast calls the film, “A breathtaking experience that finds a level of intimacy few films are ever willing to...simply a film unlike any you’ve ever seen before.” He is also the director of the award-winning films Dance, Dance, Evolution (2019), Something to Cry About (2018), Thick Relations (2012), against a trans narrative (2009), and transparent (2005). His work has screened around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, the British Film Institute, Arsenal Berlin, Anthology Film Archives, Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Gene Siskel Film Center, Sundance, BFI Flare, DocLisboa, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Schwules Museum Berlin, NewFest, and Frameline. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, ISSUE Project Room, Marble House, PLAYA and ACRE.