Julia Knobloch

Intimate, quiet, lyrical, and extremely powerful - the documentary The Iran Job is all of the above. Recently, this independently produced film portraying an American basketball player’s season with a club in Iran filled one of the theatres at the IFC Center for nearly three weeks, until Hurricane Sandy brought life in Lower Manhattan to a temporary halt. The great success among the public speaks for the documentary’s importance and validity and its brilliant, entertaining storytelling. Detailed and calm observations of human encounters, spontaneous moments that are allowed to breathe and unfold on screen, and an outwardly neutral yet sharp-eyed political perspective make this documentary debut an astounding one. Filmmaker Till Schauder produced the documentary together with his Iranian-American wife Sara Nodjoumi. He followed Kevin Sheppard, at the time a 29-year old basketball player from the US Virgin Islands, to the Iranian city of Shiraz, where Kevin was under

Our edit for our documentary about heringfishermen and yupik culture in the Bristol Bay area in Alaska brought me to Berlin for the summer. 2 more weeks to go and I'll be back in NYC!

I recently finished translating the fantastic long essay "Beethoven's Shadow" by Jonathan Biss for AmazonCrossing and am excited to see it published soon! 

I recently conducted an insightful interview with director Joan Braderman about her documentary about the feminist magazine Heresies. You can find an edited version on telegraph21.com

My article about censorship in Portugal just got published on openDemocracy.

Our Alaska documentary has been green lighted and it looks as if I will spend the spring in snow and ice! Other things that have been going on: I've joind the Advisory Group of the art organization HAWT as media coordinator, and have been writing press releases and web site content for the Theatre Museum NYC and CityKinder. My immigration is moving ahead step by step...