White Rose
Director and Producer Julie Cohen
Excavating the story of Sophie and Hans Scholl, German, non-Jewish resistance leaders beheaded for disseminating potent leaflets countering Hitler’s lies, White Rose follows researchers and German students as they reveal how – in today’s truth-endangered times – the very act of re-exploring a legacy can be revolutionary.
Phase of Support: Development
Julie Cohen
Director, Producer
Julie is an Academy Award-nominated director and producer and the winner of the 2024 Freedom of Expression Award from the Jewish Film Institute. RBG, which she directed and produced alongside Betsy West, was nominated for two Oscars, won an Emmy, a Critics Choice Award, and a duPont-Columbia award. Other feature documentaries she’s directed include Every Body, which was nominated for an Emmy, a Critics Choice Award and a GLAAD Award; the Oscar shortlisted Julia (co-directed with West) the Peabody-winning My Name is Pauli Murray (co-directed with West); Berlinale Official Selection The Sturgeon Queens, and the New York Emmy winning Ndiphilela Ukucula: I Live to Sing. Before becoming a filmmaker, Julie was a producer for NBC News. She graduated from Colgate and holds master’s degrees from Yale Law School and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.