Julie Goldman founded Motto Pictures in 2009. She is an Academy Awards® -nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer and executive producer of documentary feature films and series. She produced Steve James’ Emmy Award-winning and Academy Awards®-nominated Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, and The Final Year about Barack Obama, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Goldman is producer of Life, Animated and executive producer of Weiner, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Life, Animated won the US Documentary Directing Award, was nominated for the 2017 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award®, and won three Emmys, including Best Documentary. She executive produced the Emmy-nominated Facebook series Humans of New York, Emmy Award-winning, Oscar®-shortlisted Best of Enemies, and several other Emmy Award-winning documentaries including The Music of Strangers and Solitary. Goldman received the Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producer’s Award and the Cinereach Producer’s Award. In 2019, she received her first APSA nomination for One Child Nation.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
