Julia Jansch is a South African, Tribeca-winning filmmaker. Her short documentary, My Father the Mover, won the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival and was later acquired by MTV Studios. Executive produced by Sheila Nevins, the film was hailed by Nevins as “a fight for breath and air amidst the current deadly stillness in the world” and went on to earn a Critics Choice Award nomination. Julia’s film ELSA premiered at Tribeca and was later released by The New Yorker. Her Disney+ commissioned short, The Academy, premiered in July 2025 as part of Disney’s People & Places series, while her latest short, Dears in the Headlights, premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. From Dust, We Spin is Julia’s debut feature documentary and culmination of a focused body of work exploring the role of mentors in challenging social systems. A graduate of Oxford University (MA International Relations, MBA) and the New York Film Academy, with a BA in Politics and Philosophy from Stellenbosch University, Julia founded Southern Point Pictures to create stories that find light in the fractures of the human experience.