Julia Jackman

Julia Jackman, also known as Julia Hart, is a director and screenwriter born in Edmonton, Alberta. She started writing and directing short films in 2015. She directed her first feature film Bonus Track, in 2023.^[1][2]

Jackman worked for Stephen Fry at his production company Sprout Pictures.^[3]

In 2018, she was selected to take part in the Canadian Film Center Directors’ Lab.^[4] During that program, she wrote and directed the short film Upshot.

In 2023, her first feature film Bonus Track premiered at the London Film Festival and Tallinn. It was also part of the Great 8 line up at Cannes.^[5]

In 2024, she directed the movie 100 Nights of Hero, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Isabel Greenberg and starring Emma Corrin, Charli XCX, Maika Monroe, Nicholas Galitzine, Richard E. Grant, Amir El-Masry and Felicity Jones. The film will be closing the Venice Critics' Week in September 2025.^[6]

Career

Directing

• 2015: Emma, Change The Locks (short)
• 2016: Kid Gloves (short)
• 2017: Sparta North (short)
• 2018: 23 Red (short)
• 2019: James (short)
• 2019: Upshot (short)
• 2021: Amicable (TV pilot for BBC3)
• 2022: The Riley Sisters (short)
• 2023: Bonus Track^[1]
• 2024: Pigs (short)
• 2025: 100 Nights of Hero^[7]

Writing

• 2015: Emma, Change the Locks
• 2016: Your Mother and I
• 2016: Kid Gloves
• 2017: Sparta North
• 2018: 23 Red
• 2019: James
• 2019: Upshot
• 2022: The Riley Sisters

Awards and nominations

• 2017: LA Shorts Awards nomination for Best Short Film for Kid Gloves
• 2017: New Talent Award at the BFI Future Film Festival for Emma, Change The Locks^[8]