Julia Solomonoff is a filmmaker with a Cinematography degree from the Argentine National School of Film (ENERC). She also has an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University, New York, where she graduated with honors. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Milos Forman Grant, and a DGA Best Latinx Student Filmmaker Award.
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Solomonoff’s feature films as writer/director include Hermanas (Toronto, 2005), The Last Summer of la Boyita (Cannes, San Sebastian 2009), and Nobody’s Watching (Nadie nos mira, 2017). The film won the Best Actor Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.
She directed two documentary series for television: Aerocene Pacha (Canal Encuentro, 2020), Parana, biography of a river (2010). And the TV movie The Suitor (PBS, 2001). Her film work is included in the permanent collections at MOMA and The Shed.
Solomonoff has also produced a wide array of films including Lucrecia Martel’s Zama (Venice, Toronto, NYFF 2017), Everybody has a Plan (Toronto 2012, starring Viggo Mortensen), Celina Murga’s The Third Bank of the River (Berlin 2014, exec prod by Martin Scorsese), Lucia Murat’s A memoria que me contan (FIPRESCI award, Moscow FF 2015), Julia Murat’s Pendular (FIPRESCI Winner at Berlin Panorama 2017) and Found Memories (Venice 2011, winner of over 30 international awards), and Alejandro Landes’ Cocalero (Sundance 2007). Most recently, she produced Clara Cullen’s Manuela (2022) and Alessandra Sanguinetti’s The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (Sundance Doc Lab Grant Winner 2020). Solomonoff was 1st Assistant Director on Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries and has also worked with Isabel Coixet, Martin Rejtman, and Carlos Sorin.
Solomonoff serves on the Board of MacDowell Residency and has been teaching film directing at the graduate level for a decade, starting at Columbia University, then moving on to NYU Tisch Graduate Film, and last, serving as Head of Directing at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College before returning home to NYU Tisch Graduate Film where she now serves as the chair.