Julie Gavras

Julie Gavras is a French film director and writer. She is the daughter of film director Costa Gavras. Her first feature-length fiction film Blame it on Fidel (La Faute à Fidel) was released in France in November 2006. After graduate studies in literature and law, Julie Gavras turned to cinema. Gavras started as an assistant director in Italy and France on commercials, television movies and feature films. She worked with directors as diverse as Robert Enrico, Claire Devers, Jacques Nolot, Alexandre Jardin, Camille de Casabianca, Roberto Faenza and Michele Soavi. She also worked with her father on his 2002 World War II drama Amen, on which she served as an assistant director. In 1998, she directed a short film called Oh les beaux...