Julia Campanelli is an award-winning filmmaker and actress. Her film “116” screened in over 50 festivals worldwide and won 27 awards. Her screenplays, THE PAISLEY WITCH TRIAL (feature and pilot) have won 12 Best Screenplay awards, including Raindance Film Festival Best Unproduced Screenplay and Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Finalist.
Founder and Executive Producer of Shelter Film, a New York-based independent film company dedicated to creating films by and about women and other under-represented groups, as well as Shelter Theatre Group NYC, a non-profit company dedicated to equality on stage, through inclusion and representation, Julia has produced/directed 13 stage productions in NYC, including the critically acclaimed Macbeth on LES.
As an actress, Julia stars in NBCUniversal’s Dementia 13, 116, Kill the Monsters, The Equalizer, One Life To Live, and as Hecate in the OBIE, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Award winning immersive show Sleep No More.