Julia Stovell

Film Director

Julia is in post-production on PTSD: A Love Story, an intimate observational documentary filmed over seven years following a veteran’s journey with PTSD and its impact on his entire family, with Executive Producer André Singer. She is developing The Heist, a feature documentary with Executive Producer Alex Gibney, and is filming Raising Hell: The Ballad of James Marcus Smith, shot over ten years.

Her previous documentaries — Runaway, which she produced and directed for BBC One, and The Boy with Proteus Syndrome for Channel 4 — were broadcast in prime time and sold internationally. The Boy with Proteus Syndrome was longlisted for Breakthrough Talent (sponsored by HBO Films) at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2006.

Julia’s first narrative feature, Broken Ground (developed as Deadeye), was selected for the BFI NETWORK Writers Development Lab and received support from the BFI NETWORK England: Early Development Fund. It was also a finalist in Euroscript’s Screen Story Competition and a semi-finalist in Screencraft’s Film Fund.

She was selected for Guiding Lights, mentored by Academy Award-winning director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything), and for the BIFA Springboard Programme for emerging feature directors and the BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew Development Programme.

Julia is a very talented and driven documentary director. She made a powerful, intimate and important film for my Channel 4 documentary series, which eschewed the sensationalist story that could have been told and through her remarkable relationship with the subject, made a film that celebrated life, childhood and hope. Julia is a tenacious producer and a workaholic to boot.

Patrick Holland

Executive Chair & CEO, Banijay UK

All of Julia’s projects have a hallmark of compassion, pertinacity and a rare eye for making sometimes difficult material accessible and compelling. Her film scripts demonstrate her talent as a writer of striking material, which urgently deserves the opportunity to reach the screen.

Kenith Trodd

Producer

I find mentoring emerging filmmakers very rewarding. It makes you think about how you go about your own work. It feels like an important responsibility – to try and pass on ideas, principles and techniques to a new generation. Certainly in my case, my career was helped enormously by experienced filmmakers who generously helped and encouraged me when I started out. Working with Julia has been a real pleasure. She has two fascinating projects on the go and they have developed nicely since we have started meeting. She is a very promising filmmaker with a good sense of visual storytelling.

James Marsh

Director, Man on Wire, The Theory of Everything

Army veteran clutching an American flag at an Anti-Vietnam War protests in Boston in 1969

October 15, 1969

(Photo by Owen Franken/Getty Images)

Feature Documentary

Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, run to security positions after offloading from a CH-53E Super Sea Stallion helicopter during a mission in Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 28, 2014. The company's mission was to disrupt Taliban forces in Larr Village and establish a presence in the area. Five days prior to the helicopter-borne mission, the company confiscated two rocket-propelled grenades in the vicinity of the village.

Feature Documentary

Narrative

Television

Television

Julia Stovell

THE HEIST

PTSD: A Love Story

Milk and Honey

Runaway

The Boy With Proteus Syndrome