Co-Director/Producer

Julia Loktev

JULIA LOKTEV was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to the U.S. with her family at age nine. She has directed three feature films. The Loneliest Planet, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, received the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival and nominations for Best Director at the Independent Spirit Awards and Best Feature at the Gotham Awards, and screened in the New York Film Festival. It was selected by Indiewire as one of the 100 Best Films of the Last Decade. Day Night Day Night premiered at Cannes in Directors' Fortnight, where it won the Youth Prize, and won Louve D’Or at the Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Best New Director at the Chicago International Film Festival, two Gotham Awards nominations, and the Someone to Watch prize at the Independent Spirit Awards. Moment of Impact won the Documentary Directing Award at Sundance, the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Reél, Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary, and screened in New Directors/ New Films at MoMA. Loktev has also shown video installations at Tate Modern, P.S.1 in New York, the Brooklyn Museum. Loktev is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emerging Icons Award from the George Eastman Museum.