

JULIA ZANIN DE PAULA is an award-winning Brazillian filmmaker and designer based in New York. Her latest film, A Mother of Monsters, screened at over 40 festivals including SITGES, Festival de Cinema de Gramado, and the NOLA Horror Film Festival, receiving 18 awards on the circuit.
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With 7+ years experience on commercials, including work with Volkswagen, Coca-Cola, Ray-Ban, Polaroid, and Mastercard, as well as directing narrative shorts and music videos, Julia’s work has been screened around the world and celebrated for its fantastic realism.
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Julia has an eye for finding beauty in the bizarre and horror in the peculiar — One eye, to be precise. Born blind in one eye, Julia was drawn to the camera’s one lens, and found her flair for filmmaking at an early age.
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