Julia Kots is a filmmaker whose work has screened on PBS and at dozens of renowned festivals worldwide, including Cinequest, Hamptons, SxSW, Slamdance, Woodstock, and Chicago International Film Festival. She has received grants from New Line Cinema, Women in Film, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, among others. Julia emigrated from the former Soviet Union in 1989. She has an M.F.A. from Columbia University Film School and a B.A. from Yale University. She also worked as an editor on an HBO documentary and developed her first feature film in conjunction with Killer Films (Boys Don't Cry, etc.) She came to MacDowell to work on a new screenplay.
Discipline:
Film/Video – screenplay
Julia Kots
Discipline:
Film/Video – screenplay
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011
More:
juliakots.com
Studios
New Hampshire
Julia Kots worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…