Julia Bacha

Julia Bacha is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker.
She was born in 1980 in in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At 17, she moved to the United States.
Bacha was awarded the 2003 Phi Beta Kappa prize upon graduation from Columbia University.

In 2004, she was the co-writer (with director Jehane Noujaim) and editor of Control Room, a critically acclaimed documentary about Al Jazeera. Bacha was nominated to the Writers Guild of America Awards 2005 for her work on this film. 

Two years later, she co-directed (with Ronit Avni) the documentary Encounter Point, which was the official selection at Tribeca Film Festival, Hot Docs, Jerusalem Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival and San Francisco International Film Festivals, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

Most recently, Bacha directed the 2009 documentary Budrus, which was shown at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and became runner up in the festival's documentary competition.

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