JULIA KIDDER

Film production, shorts, mini docs & experimental visuals

Director, editor, musical score | Hot Head (4mins, 2022)

My brain got fried during the 2021 Heat Dome. It hurt and it was difficult.

Contributor | The Natural History Museum Project -
Whale People: Protectors of the Sea (2019)

Exhibition by Lummi Nation and The Natural History Museum || The Lummi People, or Lhaq’temish, are the original inhabitants of Washington’s northernmost coast and southern British Columbia. For thousands of years, the Lummi have worked, struggled and celebrated life on the shores and waters of the Salish Sea. Established in 2014, The Natural History Museum is a traveling pop-up museum that partners with community groups, artists, educators, scientists, and major public museums on environmental justice-themed exhibitions and programs.

Producer + locations & casting | Pure Immersion (2020)

From NoBudge; While recuperating from cosmetic surgery, an actress stops in a small town expecting peace and quiet, but instead finds herself absorbed in a local legend. “Pure Immersion,” directed by Dave Biddle and Dave Ehrenreich, is a strangely engrossing tale of a young woman covered in face bandages making her way through the middle of nowhere and getting to know a couple of local figures. At a highway fruit stand, she claims she was attacked by a wild cat. The man selling fruit suggests she speak with his dad, an expert on the wild animals of the region. When she does, she strikes up an odd sort-of relationship with the father and son, and they spend some time together on their farm.[Watch on YouTube]. (20 minutes).

Written & Directed: Dave Biddle, Dave Ehrenreich. Starring: Willa Holland, John Kidder, Dave Biddle. Cinematographer & Editor: Dave Ehrenreich. Producer: Julia Kidder. Sound Designer: Eugenio Battaglia. Soundtrack: Destroyer, Alexi Baris, Linda Fox, Bridge & Tunnel.

Producer, editor & co-creator | MOVE FREELY (2018)

Lo Fi Dance Theory´s inaugural short film; Move Freely (2018), premiered on Nowness.com in partnership with GRUBB (Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats) on May 24th. The film explores how dance in public space can be a form of liberating self-expression for Roma-Gypsy youth. The social exclusion often felt by the Roma people in Europe plays out against the historical tensions that colour the Balkan way of life. Belgrade´s landscape represents how urban centres can be nodes of functionality while remaining fragmented and difficult to navigate for those living on the periphery.

ExecutivE producer | Ektemann TV-Series (2017)

Ektemann is a web-series in Norway featuring Norwegian pop artist, Lars Vaular - playing himself in a myriad dark comedy. The 6-episode show illustrates modern frustrations with fatherhood, technology and competition while ultimately questioning the nature of inflated egos in cultural realms. Ektemann won the 2018 Oslo Prisen for Best New TV Show (NATT&DAG Critics Choice Awards)

Digital campaigner | Kwe’kwe’cnewtxw Flotilla Invitation (2018)

Ta'ah Elder Amy George invites all Protectors to a flotilla by land and by sea to protect the inlet on Saturday July 14. RSVP NOW: http://eepurl.com/dyYYaT On Saturday July 14, be part of the gathering on the beach or float with the flotilla on the water, with space available in canoes, kayaks and other boats for those who arrive early.

Producer, Editor | with permissions from Coast Protectors BC Union of Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) (2018)

The Protect the Inlet Flotilla hosted Water Protectors and families from across the Salish Sea on July 14th 2018. As hundreds gathered to paddle together from the ancient village site of Whey-ah-Wichen, at Cates Park in North Vancouver canoes and kayaks paddled across Slilwat, Burrard Inlet, to surround the razor-wire fence Kinder Morgan put up without consent, where Elder Ta'ah Amy George led a water ceremony.