01:09

Leotti (2021)

Léopoldine Cottin’s pottery reflects the countryside where she lives in Southwest France. Surrounded by pine forests, sand dunes and the forever changing hues of the Atlantic Ocean, her pieces combine the emotion and dedication needed to hand-make each individual form with the atmosphere and colours of the nature around.

10:28

Kinoforum

Teranga (2018)

In central São Paulo, there is a mosque and a Senegalese restaurant. Immigrants from Haiti, Senegal, Nigeria and other African countries gather there to celebrate the first day of Ramadan, and we are given a window into the sounds, flavours and colours that unexpectedly arise.

06:33

In collaboration with Phil Clarke-Hill

We are together (2016)

Hip hop stories from Rio de Janeiro, showing how urban music culture is changing the lives of young people from the favelas. Collaboration with Phil Clarke-Hill and Ruy Sposati.

04:49

Conseil Général des Landes

200 Tons (2022)

Four artists transform waste from the Grenier de Mezós (a local bric a brac and in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France) into works of art. The film reflects on the importance of linking art and recycling, while giving professionals the opportunity to network in a rural area during winter.

02:10

Crane TV

São Paulo Street Art (2016)

Deco Farkas a.k.a Treco began has lived in São Paulo all his life but street art allows him to access new, interesting and inspiring subjects, and in a sense to travel within the city. He often cycles to his locations, piling his equipment onto the bike's carrier. It is a way of exchanging with the city, attaining something new and unexpected. Using spray paint or acrylic, Treco contributes with playful, thoughtful and rather surreal artistic interventions.

01:44

Abbott

Freestyle (2019)

Participants tell the story of how Freestyle Libre impact their lifestyle as diabetics. DOP - Lucca Messer Camera Operator - Julia May

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A JOURNEY WITH SOL

Documentary short (São Paulo, 2022)

The road in Brazil is often seen as a place presenting risks that women are not apt to confront.

This is the story of a woman who confronts these risks to make a living for her family, showing that qualities of self-confidence, courage, independence, physical strength and resilience, often associated can be apparent in any human being regardless of gender.

FILMED & DIRECTED BY JULIA MAY

Currently in post-production

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THE CLOSET PROJECT

Documentary Short (São Paulo, 2018)

TAGUATINGA FILM FESTIVAL 2019

INTERNATIONAL DIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL 2019

MIX BRAZIL 2018

In March 2018, a theatre in São Paulo became a shared space for seven LGBTQIA+ people, who had moved to the city from other areas of Brazil, to reflect on their experiences of the city's contradictions regarding gender and sexuality through a series of drama workshops.

GRÃO FINO FILMES

SP CINE

PREFEITURA DE SÃO PAULO

DIRECTORS - ALICE STAMATO/LUANA MIGUEL

DOPS - PEDRO BONOLO, PEDRO WATANABE, JULIA MAY

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TERANGA

Documentary Short (São Paulo, 2018)

SÃO PAULO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2018

In central São Paulo, there is a mosque and a Senegalese restaurant. People from Haiti, Senegal, Nigeria and other African countries gather there to celebrate the first day of Ramadan and eat the food prepared by Ndeye Khady, who, in the spirit of "teranga", is a mother to them all.

ACADEMIA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

DIRECTORS - TEREZA RANGEL & JULIA MAY

DOP - JULIA MAY

ABOUT

Anglo-Brazilian, born and raised in London, Julia graduated from the University of Bristol in Modern Languages (French & Portuguese) in 2012. Inspired by subjects such as visual culture, visual anthropology and film studies, she went on to work with images.

In 2013 she moved to São Paulo, where she worked as a camera assistant in advertising, fiction and documentary for large-scale productions and major Brazilian and International TV Channels (SBT, GNT, Globo, MTV and HBO). In parallel, she studied Cinematography at B_arco, São Paulo and Inspiratorium.

After working on the film Cine Marrocos, a documentary about immigrants living in an abandoned cinema in São Paulo, (Golden Dove at Dok Leipzig, 2018), she decided to specialise in documentaries and went on to work on several other documentary productions for TV with the same cinematographer, as a camera assistant. In the meantime she she took extended documentary courses (B_arco, Academia Internacional de Cinema and the University of São Paulo).

She began working as a cinematographer in 2016. In addition to commercial work for brands such as Enel, Abbott and Decathlon, she was has worked on the short documentaries Teranga (São Paulo International Short Film Festival 2018), Projeto Closet (2018) and Trilogy in Prisons (2020) directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mama Mia, The Iron Lady).

She is currently working on the short film A Journey with Sol, about a Brazilian woman and truck driver, in addition to other commercial projects.

Julia is based in London and speaks fluent Portuguese, French & Spanish.