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Julianne Sato-Parker

(she/her)

Director and Producer

Portland, Oregon US

Available for Freelance

About

Julianne is drawn to stories of belonging – ones that explore the ways in which people lose, search for, or recreate a sense of home or identity, especially within circumstances that threaten their ability to do so. This has led her to stories about native sovereignty, transgender rights, and faith in America. Being welcomed into someone’s world to make a story about it is the biggest honor she's known. She's had that privilege on a whole lot of stories. Here are a few: “Solving for Zero,” (Wondrium) a feature-length film about technological innovations fighting climate change; “Big Dreams in Umatilla," (Oregon Public Broadcasting) a feature-length film about a high school robotics team in a rural Oregon town; “Fighting For Racial Equality: A Conversation Between Generations,” (winner of the Best Short Documentary at the New York Short Film Festival); and “Tim’s New World,” (recipient of the Award of Excellence for the Communicator Awards and Cynopsis Social Good Awards). My full-episode audio essay “That’s Just the Way the Ball Bounces” (Asian Americana) was a finalist for Best Documentary at Third Coast International Audio Festival. I’m a graduate of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism (2014), and of the University of Pittsburgh’s Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction writing (2022). I am based in Portland, Oregon and am available for assignments worldwide. Please reach out for details, questions, or to say hello!