Julia Stovell

Film Director

Julia was selected for Guiding Lights, Europe’s most prestigious mentoring programme, and mentored by Academy Award-winning director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything).

She was selected for BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) Springboard Programme for emerging feature directors and BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew Development Programme.

Julia’s first narrative feature film Deadeye was selected for BFI Network Writers Development Lab and received a BFI NETWORK Early Development Award, with Executive Producer Christopher Eccleston. Deadeye was also selected as a finalist for Euroscript’s Screen Story Competition and as a semi-finalist in Screencraft’s Film Fund.

Julia is currently directing 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.Julia is also in production on Raising Hell, filmed over ten years on rock’n’roll legend PJ Proby.

Her previous documentaries Runaway for BBC1 and The Boy with Proteus Syndrome for Channel 4 were broadcast on prime-time television and sold worldwide. Additionally The Boy With Proteus Syndrome was longlisted for the HBO BAFTA Breakthrough Talent Award.

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

Channel Editor BBC2

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

Produced films of Dennis Potter, Danny Boyle, Mike Leigh and Paul Greengrass.

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: The Theory of Everything, Man on Wire

Feature Documentary

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

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

HIGHLAND COWBOY

THE HEIST

Raising Hell: The PJ Proby Story

PTSD A Love Story

Deadeye

Milk and Honey

Runaway

The Boy With Proteus Syndrome