Biography

Julia Meltzer is a filmmaker and artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work with David Thorne has been awarded prizes at the European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale, and the Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival. Her art work has been exhibited at Modern Art Oxford, Steve Turner Gallery, HomeWorks IV in Beirut, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, among others. She is a recipient of grants from Art Matters, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship Fund, the Guggenheim Foundation, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005–6. She is a fluent Spanish speaker and proficient in Arabic spoken dialect.