Julia Weisberg-Cortés

Julia Weisberg Cortés is a writer and director based in Mexico City and Los Angeles. She became the first woman in her family to pursue a creative higher education, receiving her bachelor’s in screenwriting from LMU. Julia has gone on to pursue her passions as a filmmaker; directing and writing award-winning shorts, features, and television. Her work proudly integrates the survival stories of the women in her family with the often lost or overlooked voices of the Mexican-American woman. Currently, Julia is in post for her film, Desde la Tierra Muerta, in development for her TV series, The Golden Children, and in pre-production for her next feature The Coveted. Her Pilot won her a spot in the renowned Humanitas ‘New voices fellowship,’ and her feature Script, The Coveted, won an accolade from Slamdance (2019) for riveting drama. Julia is an alumni of both Tomorrow Filmmakers Today program and Warner Brothers Discovery (directing television.)