Honored by BAFTA in 2011 as a”Brit to Watch”, Jules Nurrish is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Masters program in Directing at the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, she has written and directed several short films, which have screened at film festivals and cultural institutions worldwide, including the British Film Institute and the Director’s Guild of America. Her short film “Bend It” was an official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and her first narrative short “No Ordinary Joe”, screened at festivals worldwide and received international distribution. Her hard-hitting film “Kiss Me”, starring Raúl Castillo as a fighter struggling in the East LA boxing world, premiered at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, garnering the award for Best Emerging Filmmaker. “Kiss Me” went on to screen at over twenty festivals; winning further awards and airing on national PBS television.

A twice recipient of the BAFTA Los Angeles Peter Henton Memorial Award, Nurrish earned the Jack Nicholson Distinguished Director Award, the George Burns & Gracie Allen Fellowship in Comedy, the BAFTA Los Angeles Fellowship and the Lynn Weston Fellowship in Film during her tenure at UCLA. In 2011, she was an Outfest Screenwriters Lab Fellow with her comedy feature script, Headliners, and in 2012, Film Independent selected Nurrish as a Fellow for Project Involve. Jules has directed several music videos and is co-writing a feature script with Spanish filmmaker Carlos Marques-Marcet (10,000 KM), slated for production in 2016.