Julia Pontecorvo is a creative producer enthusiastic about telling humanity’s most idiosyncratic and heartfelt stories through traditional and innovative forms. Her most recent project, Going Varsity in Mariachi, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She started at RadicalMedia working on a variety of short documentaries for original YouTube channel THNKR and on The System With Joe Berlinger (Al Jazeera America 2014). Notable projects include the docuseries Year Million (National Geographic 2017), the Grand Clio-winning interactive horror audio play Possession Begins (Cinemax 2017), and Lance Weiler’s acclaimed Where There's Smoke (2019 Tribeca Film Festival). Recently, she was a producer on season two of Home (Apple TV+ 2022), and a forthcoming docuseries exploring the intersection of fashion and modeling in the early 90s. Julia was also proud to be a 2020 Impact Partners Producers Fellow. She currently serves as Supervising Producer across an array of documentary projects for Firelight Media.
