JULIA
by J.Jackie Baier had its world premiere at the 70th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica in Venice/Italy / Section: Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days), August 31, 2013.
The Venice Film Festival welcomed the movie as „(an) all too human story of passion, abasement, self-discovery and rage directed at the whole world. What exactly makes a boy leave home and his country, Lithuania, to wind up dressed in women´s clothes on the streets of Berlin, selling his own body for money? For over ten years photographer and filmmaker J. Jackie Baier spent her days and nights alongside the transsexual Julia K., filming the life and thought of a self-appointed outlaw and guerrilla fighter in the war of life. A film that can´t be pigeonholed, the unfiltered vision of a raw, extreme reality, Julia marks a milestone in reality cinema, with the camera no longer a simple eye-witness but an accomplice or first-hand observer of a person whose identity defies all labels.“
JULIA has been awarded BEST DOCUMENTARY at
Outview Film Festival, Athens 2014
TLV-Fest, Tel Aviv 2014
Queer Lisboa 18, Lisbon 2014
Side by Side IFF (International Jury), St Petersburg 2014
Side by Side IFF (Russian Press Jury), St Petersburg 2014
and a SPECIAL MENTION at 29. FICG/Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara/Mx 2014
Original / English Title: Julia
Year: 2013
Country: Germany / Lithuania
Director / Writer: J. Jackie Baier
Producer: Gamma Bak, J. Jackie Baier, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė
Production: Gamma Bak Filmproduktion, J.Jackie Baier Filmproduktion, Just A Moment
Funded by: Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg; Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien; The Culture Support Foundation of The Republic of Lithuania
Cinematographer: Dieter Vervuurt (2010-2012), Th. Schneider (2005-2009) - Editing: Steffen Reck, J.Jackie Baier
Composer: Christopher Franke, Princessin Hans
Sound: Lasse Viehöfer, Till Wimmer
Sound Mix: Till Wimmer
Dramatic Advisor: Neal Wach
Protagonists and interviewees:
Julia Krivickas
W. Lerch
R. Orzichovskis
Renatė Lūšis
(more ...)
Genre: Documentary
Language: German, Lithuanian
Subtitles: English
Film running time: 88:30 min
Screening format: DCP, BluRay
Color: Color
Screen ratio: 1:1,78
Speed/Frame Rate: 25 fps
Sound Format: stereo
