Julius Onah is an award winning filmmaker who has worked for filmmakers Marc Levin and Spike Lee. A graduate of Wesleyan University's theater program, as a student he conducted research that brought acclaimed playwright Robert Alexander's hip-hop play A Preface to the Alien Garden to Wesleyan and served as an assistant director and lead actor under his direction. His student films have screened at numerous festivals around the world.
  

Since graduating Wesleyan he has been a member of NBC's Page Program, has served as assistant editor on the documentary feature Lockdown, USA (Official Selection 2006 Tribeca Film Festival), and as writer, director, editor, producer, and actor on his short film She Waits In The Restless Horizon. (2005 Color of Filmmaking Award) He has also served as a producer for MTV News (Back in Blue: The ‘Superman Returns’ Movie Special, My Block: Puerto Rico) and writer, producer, and editor of web-based sketch comedy series Tinku’s World.

Born in Nigeria and raised in The Philippines, Togo, England, and Virginia, Julius lives in New York City and is currently pursuing his M.F.A. at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program where he has been selected as a Dean’s Fellow and a recipient of a Wayfare Entertainment Ventures Production Award. The prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has also selected him as a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar.

His first semester film at NYU, Linus, has won 1st place at the Calvin Klein Student Film competition and was selected as Film of the Week at the mtvU Best Filmmaker on Campus Competition. Julius was selected as a national Top 25 Finalist in the competition and Linus was screened nationally on mtvU. He has also produced Szmolinsky, a short documentary he directed and photographed in Eberswalde, Germany that received its international premiere at the 58th Berlin Film Festival.

His short film The Boundary starring Alexander Siddig (Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven) was designated by Amnesty International as one of its "Movies That Matter", screened world wide as part of the Manhattan Short Film Festival, and is currently airing on HBO. He most recently completed Nie Patrz Wstecz in Lodz, Poland where it won the Jury Award for best film at Plus Camerimage in the Nokia Mobile Movie Competition. It was selected by esteemed Jury Chairman Slawomir Idziak (Black Hawk Down) and fellow jurists Fred Murphy (October Sky), Daniel Pearl (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), and Marcel Zyskind (A Mighty Heart). Nie Patrz Wstecz received its international premiere at the 53rd Times BFI London Film Festival. re

Julius was a directing talent at the 2009 Berlin Talent Campus and is currently developing several feature length projects.