Director & Producer

Julie Cohen

Julie Cohen is the director/producer of RBG (Magnolia, Participant, CNN Films, 2018) along with Betsy West. Previous films she’s directed include The Sturgeon Queens (7th Art Releasing/PBS, screened at Berlinale, 2015) and American Veteran (Freestyle, 2017). Before she started making documentaries, Julie was a staff producer for NBC News and the creator and producer of Supreme Court Watch on Court TV. She has won a duPont Columbia Award, two Gracie Awards, and three New York Emmy Awards. She holds a B.A. from Colgate and master’s degrees from Columbia Journalism School and Yale Law School.