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Julia Solomonoff
Julia Solomonoff is an Argentine film director, screenwriter, producer, and educator from Rosario, Argentina, based in New York City. Her work includes feature films, short films, documentary, and television. She is known for the feature films Sisters (2005), The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009), and Nobody's Watching (2017).
Solomonoff has also worked as a producer on films by Latin American directors, including Lucrecia Martel's Zama, Julia Murat's Pendular, Celina Murga's The Third Bank of the River, and Alejandro Landes's Cocalero. She is Head of Directing at the Graduate Film Program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where she served as Departmental Chair from 2021-2025.
Solomonoff studied cinematography at the Argentine National School of Film, known as ENERC, and received an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she graduated with honors. She was a Fulbright Scholar and received a Milos Forman Grant and a Directors Guild of America award for Best Latinx Student Filmmaker.
Solomonoff began directing short films in the 1990s. Her early works include Octavo 51 (1992), Un día con Ángela (1993), and Siesta (1998). Her short film Scratch (2003) screened at New Directors/New Films and received the Milos Forman Award.
Solomonoff's first feature film, Sisters (Spanish: Hermanas), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005. The film was developed through the Sundance Writers Lab and the Berlinale Talent Campus. The film was also Pedro Pascal's feature film debut. For Pascal's role, Solomonoff was looking for candidates with strong English-language skills. In addition to meeting this requirement, Pascal (then credited as Balmaceda) was found to be "someone with a very special face, very photogenic, with a kind of mystery" by Solomonoff.
Her second feature, The Last Summer of La Boyita (Spanish: El último verano de la Boyita), premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2009. The film was produced by Pedro Almodóvar's company El Deseo and won more than twenty international awards. It is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
In 2017, Solomonoff wrote and directed Nobody's Watching (Spanish: Nadie nos mira), starring Guillermo Pfening. Pfening won Best Actor at the Tribeca Festival for his performance in the film. The film opened theatrically at Film Forum in New York and was a New York Times and Village Voice Critics' Pick.
Solomonoff's television and documentary work includes The Suitor (2001), which aired on PBS, Chinchonfan (2003), Paraná, Biography of a River (2011), and Aerocene Pacha: A Sustainable Utopia (2020). Aerocene Pacha: A Sustainable Utopia was presented by the Goethe-Institut's Science Film Festival and credited Solomonoff as director.
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Julia Solomonoff
Julia Solomonoff is an Argentine film director, screenwriter, producer, and educator from Rosario, Argentina, based in New York City. Her work includes feature films, short films, documentary, and television. She is known for the feature films Sisters (2005), The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009), and Nobody's Watching (2017).
Solomonoff has also worked as a producer on films by Latin American directors, including Lucrecia Martel's Zama, Julia Murat's Pendular, Celina Murga's The Third Bank of the River, and Alejandro Landes's Cocalero. She is Head of Directing at the Graduate Film Program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where she served as Departmental Chair from 2021-2025.
Solomonoff studied cinematography at the Argentine National School of Film, known as ENERC, and received an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she graduated with honors. She was a Fulbright Scholar and received a Milos Forman Grant and a Directors Guild of America award for Best Latinx Student Filmmaker.
Solomonoff began directing short films in the 1990s. Her early works include Octavo 51 (1992), Un día con Ángela (1993), and Siesta (1998). Her short film Scratch (2003) screened at New Directors/New Films and received the Milos Forman Award.
Solomonoff's first feature film, Sisters (Spanish: Hermanas), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005. The film was developed through the Sundance Writers Lab and the Berlinale Talent Campus. The film was also Pedro Pascal's feature film debut. For Pascal's role, Solomonoff was looking for candidates with strong English-language skills. In addition to meeting this requirement, Pascal (then credited as Balmaceda) was found to be "someone with a very special face, very photogenic, with a kind of mystery" by Solomonoff.
Her second feature, The Last Summer of La Boyita (Spanish: El último verano de la Boyita), premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2009. The film was produced by Pedro Almodóvar's company El Deseo and won more than twenty international awards. It is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
In 2017, Solomonoff wrote and directed Nobody's Watching (Spanish: Nadie nos mira), starring Guillermo Pfening. Pfening won Best Actor at the Tribeca Festival for his performance in the film. The film opened theatrically at Film Forum in New York and was a New York Times and Village Voice Critics' Pick.
Solomonoff's television and documentary work includes The Suitor (2001), which aired on PBS, Chinchonfan (2003), Paraná, Biography of a River (2011), and Aerocene Pacha: A Sustainable Utopia (2020). Aerocene Pacha: A Sustainable Utopia was presented by the Goethe-Institut's Science Film Festival and credited Solomonoff as director.
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