Just Effing Entertain Me

A regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Julie also directs the popular Just Effing Entertain Me Screenwriting Competition, now in its 5th year.

Julie has read at production companies including: Walden Media (Narnia, Holes, Journey to the Center of the Earth), Red Wagon (Sony: Memoirs of a Geisha), Cinergi (Swim Fan, The Terminator), Bedford Falls (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai) and Seed Productions (Hugh Jackman and John Palermo), Julie consults privately with a variety of writers all over the world and has taught at the Oxford Student Union at Oxford University, The West England University in Bristol and San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador.

Julie teaches screenwriting classes at Warner Bros., The Great American Pitchfest, The Creative Screenwriting Expo and the Willamette Writer’s Conference in Portland, Oregon.

A volunteer at the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, Julie is committed to fostering the creative voices of students and women in the Middle East through the medium of film. She is currently working as a Media Mentor for Creativity for Peace, a non-profit organization that brings Palestinian, Israeli-Arab and Jewish young women together to build relationships and bridge communication gaps in Israel.

A resident of Tel Aviv, Israel, Julie’s ebook, Just Effing Entertain Me will be available at the Amazon Kindle Store in late spring, 2012. Her ebook I am Not Myself: A Year Grieving Suicide is currently available on Amazon.

Only Connect. ~ E.M. Forster

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