Julia is a multi-award winning Executive Producer, Producer, Director and Writer.  In 1998 her highly acclaimed directorial debut, Paying for the Piper, was nominated for two AFI awards, a Royal Television Society award, and won the Golden Spire Award at the 2000 San Francisco Film Festival. Julia has made over 300 hours of television across a broad spectrum of genres for the Australian and international marketplace. Her most noted global hits include the ground-breaking, Outback Truckers and Outback Opal Hunters. She has recently brought all her skills of story-telling and producing to the fulldome screen, producing three ambitious 4K, live action fulldome films, Ningaloo – Australia’s Other Great Reef, Whale Super Highway, which she wrote and directed, and Star Dreaming which she wrote and co-produced. 

Julia is also a highly accomplished business woman. She is winner of the 2021 Western Australian of the Year Business Award. Julia is also a highly active member of the screen industry. Currently, she is the Deputy Chair of Screen Voice, a former member of the Screenwest Industry Advisory Group (IAG), and is newly appointed as Advisor to the Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Council.