Julia Bacha is a Peabody and Guggenheim award-winning filmmaker and the Creative Director at Just Vision, an organization that fills a media gap on Israel-Palestine through independent storytelling and strategic audience engagement. Since graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, she has strategically used documentary film to foster constructive conversations on some of the most divisive issues of our times.

She began her filmmaking career in Cairo as writer and editor of Control Room (2004), before moving to Jerusalem where she co-directed Encounter Point (2006). She went on to direct and produce Budrus (2009), My Neighbourhood (2012), Naila and the Uprising (2017), and most recently Boycott (2021), films that have premiered at leading festivals such as Tribeca, IDFA, HotDocs and SXSW, and garnered over thirty awards including the Peabody.

In addition to film festival recognition, she is the recipient of the King Hussein Leadership Prize, the Ridenhour Film Prize, the Chicken & Egg Prize, and Columbia University’s Medal of Excellence. Originally from Brazil, she is a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.