Team

JULIA MARTIN

Julia is a Chicago-based filmmaker who got her start interning with Kartemquin Films, the 53-year-old documentary production house behind films such as Academy Award-nominated Hoop Dreams and Peabody Award-winning Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita. After interning, she joined the organization’s staff and held a variety of roles including assistant to Kartemquin founder and artistic director Gordon Quinn, supporting the organization’s development department, and contributing to marketing strategies, impact campaigns, and distribution plans for Kartemquin's co-productions, including Academy Award-nominated Minding the Gap, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, and Edith + Eddie.

Mimi Wilcox

Mimi Wilcox is a Chicago-based documentary filmmaker, editor and cinematographer. She most recently edited the feature documentary Head to Head (dir. Andrea Alberti), which follows the stories of five women with hair loss. She is a co-editor of Kartemquin Films' upcoming feature documentary The Dilemma of Desire (dir. Maria Finitzo), which premiered at SXSW 2020. Other credits include Mr. Gele (Cleveland International Film Festival), Alpha Mare (Woods Hole Film Festival), Concrete Dreams (RIDE Channel), and Uninsurable (Upworthy). Mimi was a resident of the 2019 Points North Institute Shortform Editing Residency with her film The Sebastopol Siege. She has shot for National Geographic, Jigsaw and feature documentaries around the world. She was born and raised in Northern California.

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