Juliana Roth

Juliana Roth

(She/Her)
Creative
Juliana Roth is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and performer living on the Lower East Side.
Full Bio
Juliana wrote/directed/produced the award-winning narrative web series, The University, which follows a college community in the aftermath of a sexual assault. The series advanced as a pitch in YouTube’s partnership with Sundance and was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing for the project. The University won Best Web/Pilot at the Los Angeles Film Awards and placed as a finalist for Best Pilot with the Vancouver Independent Film Festival. A pilot cut of the series is available to watch through Films Media Group.

Screenplays and teleplays by Juliana were selected for Script Summit, the Atlanta Film Festival, the Austin Revolution Film Festival, the Socially Relevant Film Festival, the Big Apple Film Festival, and advanced as productions in ScreenCraft’s Film Fund along with being featured on Girl Gaze and in Cinema Femme. Her scripts were selected as a Seconder Rounder for the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and advanced in the Sundance Episodic Lab.

A short film she wrote/directed/produced, Final Curtain Call, was developed with Stowe Story Labs as a Maven Screen Media Fellowship Finalist. The film premiered at Cinema Village with the New York Shorts International Film Festival followed by an Academy-qualifying theatrical run in Los Angeles with Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall.
Professional Credits
“Finding Jo,” writer/camera/editor, documentary short, independent production Current
“Film Society,” writer/performer, web series, Turnstone Productions Fall 2023
“Patricia,” documentary short, director/editor, independent production April 2022
“Rivertown Film Society at Twenty,” editor, documentary short, RFS Winter 2021
“My Boy Said He Heard That On Joe Rogan,” music video, Flynn Vivant Records Jan. 2021
“Artist Talk: Liliane Tomasko, Sean Scully, and Phong H. Bui,” documentary, camera Oct. 2021
“Final Curtain Call,” writer/director/editor, short film, independent production Sept. 2021
“The Cards,” performer/co-director/editor, short film, independent production Sept. 2020
“The University,” writer/director/editor, feature film, Films Media Group Jun. 2020
“Anna Karenina: A Riff,” editor/camera, behind-the-scenes, Notch Theatre Company Nov. 2019
“Liberty’s Secret,” background performer, feature film, Andy Kirshner Productions Spring 2016
“The No Face Doll,” voice actress, animated short, CG Muse Fall 2015
Industry Awards
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Finalist, Café Royal Cultural Foundation Winter Literature Grant (for Hog manuscript) 2026
Finalist, Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship (for Creature manuscript) 2024
Ecotopian Library Writers Residency, Governors Island, NY 2023
Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow, The Center for Fiction 2022-23
Selected Artist, Creatives Rebuild New York 2022-23
John Zobel Scholarship, Community of Writers 2022
Film Grant Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts 2021
Film Grant Recipient, Arts Council of Rockland 2021
Grant Recipient, Network of Ensemble Theaters 2020
VIDA Fellowship, Sundress Publications 2020
Publishing Fellowship, Los Angeles Review of Books at USC 2019
Microscope Fellowship, Institute for the Study for Contemporary Collaborative Imagining 2018
Poetry Scholarship, Orion Magazine - Environmental Writers Workshop 2018
Carlisle Family Scholarship, Community of Writers 2017
Teaching Assistantship, Rutgers University - Camden 2016-18
Bear River Writers Conference Scholarship 2015

AWARDS AND HONORS
Honorable Mention from Hanif Abdurraqib, Button Poetry (for Animal Control manuscript) 2024
Semifinalist, Philip Levine Prize at Fresno State (for Animal Control manuscript) 2024
Official Selection, Big Apple Film Festival Screenwriting Competition 2024
Official Selection, New York Shorts International Film Festival 2022
Nominee - Best Drama Writing, International Academy of Web Television 2022
Selected Screenwriter, Stowe Story Labs 2021
Finalist - Best Pilot, Vancouver Independent Film Festival 2021
Best Web/Pilot, Los Angeles Film Awards 2020
Finalist, The Lady Filmmakers Festival’s Screenplay Competition 2019
Official Selection, Austin Revolution Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition 2019
Finalist, Socially Relevant Film Festival New York Screenwriting Competition 2019
Semifinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition 2019
Fiction Nominee, Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology 2018
Nonfiction Nominee, Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology 2018
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2016
Quinn Creative Writing Prize for Top Thesis of the Year, University of Michigan 2015
National Finalist, Hopwood Award in Screenwriting 2015
National Finalist, Hopwood Award in Short Fiction 2015
Cowden Memorial Writing Fellowship, University of Michigan 2014
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