Julie Cohen

Producer and director Julie Cohen’s most recent work includes co-directing RBG (Mountainfilm 2018), a theatrical documentary starring Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She heads the Brooklyn-based production company BetterThanFiction, which produces documentaries, television programming and digital content. Her films have screened at more than 80 festivals and she has won three New York Emmy Awards since 2012. Other notable works include American Veteran (2017), The Sturgeon Queens (2014) and Ndiphilela Ukucula: I Live to Sing (2013). A former longtime NBC News staff producer, Julie still does consulting projects for NBC. She graduated from Colgate and holds masters degrees from Yale Law School and the Columbia Journalism School, where she is now an adjunct professor.