Julia Marchesi

Julia Marchesi is a nonfiction producer, director, show runner, and podcast host. She was the show runner on an eight-part CNN documentary series called Soundtracks (2017) as well as the latest installment of the CNN Decades series on the 2010s (2023). In 2017 she was nominated for a Grammy award in the 'Best Music Film' category for the PBS series Soundbreaking. She was the show runner on Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s PBS series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War (2018), which won a DuPont-Columbia Award. She co-created and co-hosted the limited series podcast Conviction: American Panic for Gimlet / Spotify in 2020. She co-directed a film on the actress Mae West which broadcast in 2020 as part of PBS's American Masters series. She directed the feature documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches which broadcast on HBO in February 2022 and was nominated for the Humanitas Prize and an Emmy.