Miranda July

Miranda July is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, performer and author whose work moves between film, fiction and live performance. Born in Barre, Vermont, and raised in Berkeley, California, she began staging plays in punk clubs and later attended film school. She wrote, directed and starred in her first feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. She followed it with The Future (2011), again writing, directing and starring, and wrote and directed Kajillionaire (2020). She appears in Madeline's Madeline (2018) and narrates the documentary Fire of Love (2022). Her earlier shorts include The Amateurist and Nest of Tens, both prize winners, and she ran the Joanie4Jackie distribution project for women filmmakers. She also released music and wrote the story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.