Julia Lerman is a Los Angeles\u2013based writer and director. Her and Roja Gashtili’s feature film,\u00a0Rita Mahtoubian Is Not a Terrorist\u00a0(2015), was selected for Film Independent\u2019s Directing Lab in 2016 and was among five narrative projects chosen for the 2015 Sundance Creative Producing Labs. That same year, they were inaugural fellows in the Tribeca\/Chanel Women\u2019s Filmmaker Program with their most recently completed short film,\u00a0The Last Shift(2015).\u00a0Rita Mahtoubian Is Not a Terrorist\u00a0also earned a 2015 nomination for the Student Visionary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.<\/p>\n
Earlier in their career, Julia and Roja were fellows in AFI\u2019s Directing Workshop for Women (2014), recipients of the Tribeca All Access grant (2013), and participants in IFP\u2019s Emerging Narrative Labs (2010).<\/p>\n
Julia began her career in New York City, contributing to acclaimed television programs such as MTV\u2019s\u00a0True Life\u00a0and Showtime\u2019s\u00a0This American Life. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n
Lerman served as executive story editor on Wonder Man (2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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