Julia Elizabeth Evans is a storyyelling, hard-of-hearing writer-producer from the American South.
She lives in Los Angeles, CA where by night she’s a writer for the Film Independent Project Involve 2024 cohort.
By day, she works as the film/tv development coordinator at SpectreVision.
A selection of work from 2018-2023.
Provenance (2023)
Limited Series
Executive Producer/Showrunner
Art specialists compete in the cutthroat world of art sales at Bristow's Auction House in NYC.
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Winner of the 42nd Television Academy Foundation CTA Award for Best Drama Series
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Budget: Total budget provided by USC— $42,000.
Click the thumbnail to watch the teaser. Click the series poster art to learn more about the show’s development and production process.
Truckstop (2023)
Hybrid Narrative Short
Lead Producer
East Indians in the American West. An often-not-mentioned story of belonging.
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Timeline: To be shot in October 2022 as part of USC MFA thesis project. Fiscally sponsored by Film Independent.
Budget: Total budget raised through Film Independent — $40,000.
Media Literate (2020 - 2022)
Podcast Producer / Contributing Writer
A bunch of grad students gather to discuss the big (and not so big) questions of film, media, and TV on their chaotic, anxiety-ridden journey to becoming “media literate.”
Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Timeline: schedule, record, produce, and edit one episode per week. Click logo to listen.
Image designed by Julia Rose Camus.
Documentary
2018-2020
Co-Director (Hired)
Development Producer
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Click collage to watch teaser.
Based on the true-crime novel by Denise White Parkinson, Daughter of the White River is a feature-length docu-drama. It’s a story of vengeance and Depression-era treachery. At the age of 17, Helen Spence avenged her father's murder by shooting his murderer inside the Arkansas County Courthouse. In so doing, Helen unleashed a chain of events that brought about her ultimate destruction inside the state’s notorious women's prison.
Through interviews and historical dramatizations, the film grapples with the deeply philosophical question...the deeply American question… What is the difference between a hero and a vigilante?
Development & Financial Support
for this project provided by the following foundations—
THE MORRIS FOUNDATION
Narrative Short
Writer/Director
Co-Editor/Co-Producer
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Timeline: shot, edited, and produced in 1 month. Click image to watch.
A self-proclaimed “incel” blames his problems on a Tinder match while ordering Papa John’s for delivery.
It’s an emotionally loaded pizza order.
Financial Support
received from the following foundations—
The Place to Be (2018)
Documentary Short
Director/Producer/Editor
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Timeline: shot, edited, and produced in 5 months. Click poster to watch on vimeo.com.
Every Thursday night on a quiet corner in New Orleans an entire block of neighbors gathers at the corner store to eat as a family.
The Place to Be is a contemporary story about New Orleans’ neighborhood culture. The story’s main character, Bau Nguyen, is the owner of the store—Singleton’s Mini Mart. Through Bau, we learn how the idea of family can be stretched to accommodate more unorthodox interpretations.
Explorations in collaboration—
Absorb Everything (2020)
Writer / Director / Actor / Production Designer
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Aniko blames herself for being inappropriately harassed at work until a Facetime call with an old friend snaps her out of it.
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Timeline: developed and produced in 3 weeks in USC SCA 508. Click image to watch. ***Produced virtually under strict USC COVID-19 protocols.
Mouzard (2020)
Producer / DP / Production Designer / Editor
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Jerry, a horse figurine aficionado and live streamer, is put under a powerful spell by a mouse wizard figurine. And so, Jerry begins an absurd transformation from man to mouse.
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Timeline: developed and produced in 3 weeks in USC SCA 508. Click image to watch. ***Produced virtually under strict USC COVID-19 protocols.
Received USC Production Comedy Award.
BELA TARR HARMONIES (2019)
Director / Producer
It is closing time at the historic Maple Leaf. A serene, blank-faced Mira Guidry (Jen Meacham) walks in on a bar fight. The mood deescalates as Mira explains the cosmological phenomenon of a solar eclipse.
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Timeline: developed and produced in 3 months. Original score by Anuraag Pendyal. Click image to watch.