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rio de janeiro , brazil 150px budrus , encounter point , control room 1980 documentary julia bacha headshot.jpg julia bacha
 julia bacha director , producer , writer
julia bacha

julia bacha -lrb- born 1980 -rrb- is a brazilian documentary filmmaker .
she is a media strategist and award-winning filmmaker whose work has been exhibited at sundance , tribeca , berlin , jerusalem , and dubai international film festivals , and broadcast on the bbc , hbo , al jazeera and al arabiya television channels .
since graduating magna cum laude from the columbia university school of general studies in 2003 , she has strategically used film to highlight under documented stories from the middle east .
julia started her filmmaking career in cairo , where she co-wrote and edited jehane noujaim 's critically acclaimed documentary , control room -lrb- 2004 -rrb- , for which she was nominated to the writer 's guild of america award .
since 2004 , julia has been working closely with ronit avni to develop and implement just vision 's media strategy .
she wrote and co-directed encounter point -lrb- 2006 -rrb- , which was broadcast on al arabiya and endorsed by the israeli education ministry , directed and produced budrus -lrb- 2009 -rrb- , which had a palpable impact on us and arab media coverage of nonviolent resistance in the middle east , and directed and produced the upcoming my neighbourhood -lrb- 2012 -rrb- , which premiered at the tribeca film festival in april 2012 .
she has been a guest on numerous television shows such as charlie rose , msnbc 's andrea mitchel reports and al jazeera 's frost over the world .
for her influential work in shaping media in the us and beyond , julia is the co-recipient of the 2009 king hussein leadership prize , 2010 search for common ground award , 2011 ridenhour film prize and the 2012 o globo `` faz diferença '' award .
her ted talk `` pay attention to nonviolence '' has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide .
