Julie M. Thompson

Movies

Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
Self
A documentary revisiting the career of a feisty activist musician, who never quite achieved the same recognition as her similar contemporaries Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. Experience the power of song in the struggle for equality through the story of feminist singer and activist Holly Near, who for the last 40 years has worked on global social justice coalition-building in the women’s and lesbian movements.
Robert Scheer: Above the Fold
Director
A documentary on the six-decades long career of a muckraking journalist, who was involved with the radical 196os magazine Ramparts, with the Los Angeles Times newspaper, and later with the Internet website Truthdig.
Nebraska
Executive Producer
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
The Willmar 8
Producer
Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.