Julia Zanin de Paula is an award-winning Brazilian director and editor based in New York. Her film, A Mother of Monsters, screened at over 40 festivals including SITGES, Festival de Cinema de Gramado, and the NOLA Horror Film Festival, receiving 18 awards on the circuit.

With 10+ years experience on commercials, including work with Volkswagen, Walmart, Vaseline, Coca-Cola, Ray-Ban, Polaroid, and Mastercard, as well as directing narrative shorts and music videos, Zanin de Paula’s work has been screened around the world and celebrated for its fantastic realism.

Zanin de Paula has an eye for finding beauty in the bizarre and horror in the peculiar—one eye, to be precise. Born blind in one eye, Zanin de Paula was drawn to the camera’s one lens, and found her flair for filmmaking at an early age.