About

Julie Englander loves non-fiction in its many forms. She was selected for the 2010 CPB/PBS Producers Workshop at WGBH and in 2011 became the first Chicago-based producer awarded a grant from the Chicken & Egg Film Fund. Most recently she co-produced “Punch 9 For Harold Washington,” which sold out screenings at DocNYC and won Best Documentary at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival.
As a grant-writer and consultant, Julie has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from Catapult, NEA, Soros (now Sundance), Illinois Humanities, ITVS/LINCS, and others. An ITVS panelist called her writing “exemplary.” She teaches at Chicago Filmmakers and has written feature stories for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, and In These Times. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York.