Julia Mintz
Julia Mintz is a writer, producer and director whose work focuses on narratives of bravery and resistance against unimaginable odds. She has worked on many of the country’s most celebrated documentary films. Recent projects include: Mr.SOUL!, aired on PBS, Get Me Roger Stone, NETFLIX, premiered at Tribeca, Equity, a narrative feature, SONY Pictures, premiered Sundance, winner Women’s Image Network Award, Muscle Shoals premiered at Sundance aired on PBS Independent Lens, Love Free or Die, winner Sundance Jurors Choice for Independent Lens, Joe Papp in Five Acts, premiered Tribeca, airing American Masters, and California State of Mind: Legacy of Pat Brown, aired on PBS. Julia post produced and associate produced Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the civil rights movement, which premiered at Cannes and was nominated for Writers Guild, Producers Guild, and was short-listed for an Academy Award®. Mintz also post-produced the film Nanking, which won a Peabody, Emmy® and Editorial Award at Sundance, aired HBO. Other projects include: The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo, Emmy® Award nominee; The Killer Within, Emmy® Award-winner; and Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, Emmy® Award-winner.
Four Winters, Mintz's directorial debut, is an essential documentary about Jewish partisans who took up arms against Hitler’s war machine. Despite extraordinary odds, over 25,000 Jews fought the Nazis and their collaborators from deep within the forests of WWII’s Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Belarus. These determined men and women, many barely in their teens, engaged in acts of sabotage, blowing up trains, burning electric stations, and attacking armed enemy headquarters with whatever weapons they could build, steal and construct. The last surviving partisans tell their stories to director Julia Mintz, who shines a spotlight on their bravery, grit, courage and deep humanity. Through interviews, archival footage and historic war records, Four Winters reveals a stunning, heartfelt narrative of heroism and resilience.
Mintz has produced and post-supervised programs for American Masters, PBS, NASA, NETFLIX, NHK, Independent Lens, Discovery, WGBH, WETA, WNET, NatGeo, HBO. Mintz is co-founder of New Moon Films and Full Res Productions, creating numerous video and multi-media projects for corporate and commercial clients.
