Julius Onah is an award winning filmmaker who has been selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of its 2010 “25 New Faces of Independent Film”. A graduate of Wesleyan University's theater program, Julius has also worked for filmmakers Marc Levin and Spike Lee and his films have screened at numerous festivals around the world. He is currently in post-production on his debut feature The Girl is in Trouble with executive producer Spike Lee.

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

His work includes Linus, which 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 and is currently being distributed by Doc Alliance in Europe.

His film The Boundary starring Alexander Siddig (Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven) has screened worldwide across six continents, was selected by Amnesty International as one of its "Movies That Matter", and also aired on HBO. Julius received the Best Director award at NBC’s Short Cuts Film Festival and a finalist position in NBC’s Director Fellowship program. The Boundary is currently airing on Hulu as part of Cinetic’s Film Buff collection.

Julius has also directed a series of films on mobile phones including Nie Patrz Wstecz in Lodz, Poland where it won the Grand Jury Award for best film at Plus Camerimage in the Nokia Mobile Movie Competition. Nie Patrz Wstecz received its international premiere at the 53rd Times BFI London Film Festival. His second mobile phone film Goodbye Chicken, Farewell Goat, shot in Denmark and Nigeria, premiered at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival. Most recently Julius received a production award from Focus Features to create a new film in Africa.

Julius was a directing talent at the Berlin Film Festival's 2009 Berlin Talent Campus. He was also selected for the Tribeca Film Festival's 2010 Tribeca All Access program for The Girl is in Trouble.