Hi I'm Julia Mervis.
I'm based in London and I make films. I like investigating stuff and making audiences laugh.
Please enjoy my cutting-edge portfolio website!
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE LAURELS
From my time as an Ancient Greek athlete
MY FILMS
shot/ edited/ directed by me
click the film name to watch it
London's Rocketship Launchers.
My first 'proper' film! It follows a quest to uncover the identity of the large, circular metal structures found around London. It's really about our society's apathy, though.
Screened from London to Glasgow to Lausanne to Milwaukee- it premiered at 2024 London Short Film Fest & was nominated for Best Documentary at BFI Future Film Festival.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Length: 7 mins
Genre: Documentary
The Misery Line
Tired of everyone ignoring me, I took the London Underground from one end to the other. A film riding on our commuter culture & increasing atomisation.
Screened from Belfast to Blackburn to London- it has had a lot of fun in film clubs & screening events around the UK.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Length: 9 mins
Genre: Documentary
The Golden Postbox
An ode to a postbox painted gold, and the mood that birthed it. The Golden Postbox investigates the changing attitudes of Sheffield’s city centre towards a postbox... and whether life is sort of shit now.
Screened at 2024 Sheffield Doc Fest & 2025 Sunderland Shorts. Nominated for 2025 Best Microshort at BFI Future Film Festival, winner of Audience Choice Award at 2025 Canon Stories in Motion Awards!
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Length: <4 mins
Genre: Documentary, Tragedy
My Sister Eating Celery (with her boyf).
Have you ever wondered what my sister and her boyfriend think about their Jewish identity? Playing around with a Sony Hi8 camera one day means you can now find out in this DIY short.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Length: 5 mins
Genre: Documentary
Route 310
I investigate a controversial new 'Jewish' bus route in London- and our confirmation bias towards what unfolds around us.
Completed in February 2025, it's going to world premier at SXSW London this June!
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Length: 7 mins
Genre: Documentary
STUFF I'VE DONE
Shortlisted for 2025 Netflix Documentary Talent Fund
Along with producer Aly Christal, I was one of 12 people shortlisted for the Emerging Talent fund at Netflix, led by Kate Townsend. We devised and pitched a short documentary and got to the final round of pitching IRL at Netflix HQ.
It was an amazing experience - and we came away with a mug and notepad (pictured right).
Filmmaker Challenge @ Sheffield Doc Fest
I was selected and commissioned as one of six emerging documentary directors to take part in the Filmmaker Challenge at Sheffield Doc Fest.
Under the mentorship of the iconique director Julie Cohen, we had one day to shoot a documentary in Sheffield.
OTHER WORK
Film & TV Researcher
I also work as a freelance researcher (pictured right) and assist on location. I've worked on ITV travelogues and branded digital documentary series about cats. Before that I worked in-house as an assistant producer/director at Silverfish Films. Let me know if you'd like a coveted copy of my CV.
GET IN TOUCH
I'm always up for cool new projects / collabs / connections, so get in touch 🐄
Instagram : @ju1iamervis
Email: juliamervisfilm@gmail.com