Julie Sharbutt is a Genre and Comedy filmmaker and humor writer from New York now based in LA. Her 2023 short film SCAM screened at RiverRun, Fantaspoa, Woodstock, Cannes Film Festival American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase and more, and won Best Short Fiction Film at the Nevada Women’s Film Festival and Best Comedy Short at the Haunted House Fear Festival, and is now streaming on Omeleto. Her award winning short film screenplay BOTTLECAP was optioned, Produced and Directed in 2023 by Barbara Brown (P-Valley, Glee, 911). In 2021 Julie co-wrote the short film CUPIDS which premiered at Tribeca and was nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image Award. Other recent works include her feature screenplays EXCELLENT FANCY (2023 Writers Lab Finalist, 2022 WScripted Cannes Screenplay List, 2022 Stowe Story Labs Finalist), GHOSTIES (2021 Nantucket Film Festival Finalist), RETREAT (2022 FilmQuest Finalist), as well as her original pilots SALVAGED (2022 Broad Humor Film Festival Best Pilot), THE SKID (2021 ScreenCraft Drama Finalist), SECRETARY OF ARTS (2023 Slamdance Quarterfinalist), PLAYERS and others. Her 2019 short film 3 DAYS is now on ALTER with over a million views. Her 2015 dark comedy feature MOVED is on Amazon. Julie is a 2018 Warner Bros Discovery OneFifty New Storytellers alumni, where she developed her feature comedy screenplay COOL NEW TOWN as an episodic series. Prior to filmmaking she was a TV, film and theater actor in New York, and performed improv at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and The PIT. Her humor writing can be seen in The New Yorker and McSweeneys, and in 2022 her novel HALLOWEEN PARADE was optioned. MFA in Acting from NYU, BA from Vanderbilt, member of Film Fatales, Women in Film, and Alliance of Women Directors. Current mentor in Vanderbilt University’s VANDY IN HOLLYWOOD summer program, and longtime former West Coast Board Member of the NYU GRAD ACTING ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. She loves hiking, volunteering, and ghost stories.