Julia Hannud is a creative documentary director and the founder of UMA FILMES, an independent production company based in São Paulo that amplifies the voices of women filmmakers and is dedicated to author-driven documentary storytelling.

She directed the feature documentary Saudade Mundão (2020), her graduation film, which premiered at FESTin Lisboa 2019. The film explores the stories of incarcerated women in Brazil and is currently available on Amazon Prime, Google Play, and Apple TV. She also directed the short film Bacuranao, produced during her Master’s program in Documentary at EICTV in Cuba, currently in post-production.
Julia recently completed her first full-length documentary as a director, Carcereiras. The film has participated in several international development labs, including Campus Latino (Goethe-Institut – Mexico, Chile, Spain), Nuevas Miradas (Cuba), where it won three awards, SANFIC Lab (Chile), Fulgor Lab (Spain) and Cannes Docs 2025.
As a producer, she has worked on The Prison Beauty Contest by Srdjan Sarenac (2018); Partir by Sonia Guggisberg, selected for the É Tudo Verdade International Documentary Film Festival (2018); and collaborated with Jorge Bodanzky on Amazônia, A Nova Minamata? (2023). She is currently executive producing Cá Estamos, Cá Estivemos (2025), directed by Juliana Serfaty.
In addition, Julia is developing I Am Salvador, a personal documentary that traces the Syrian diaspora in Brazil in the 1920s through the life story of her great-grandfather.
She holds a Master’s degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Spain.
 

• 2026 - Jailers | 96min | documentary
• 2019 - Enclosure | 90 min | documentary
• 2018 - Only mothers love | 24 min | documentary
• 2017 - Life Story of My Friend | 22 min | fiction
• 2016 - Esse | 55 min | documentary