Julia Mellen is a Brazilian-American filmmaker based in Madrid. Her work spans documentary, performance and digital animation, exploring intimacy, spectatorship and the instability of authorship through a hybrid language that draws on personal experiences to craft diverse narratives. Her latest short film, Abortion Party, premiered at FIDMarseille in 2025, where it won the Alice Guy Award. It subsequently won Best International Short Film at the London Short Film Festival, the Audience Award at Vienna Shorts, and Special Mentions at Seminci, Beijing, Márgenes and the Hamburg Short Film Festival. The film has screened at more than 45 film festivals, including FICValdivia, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and the Chicago International Film Festival. Abortion Party was also featured in the BFI’s Sight and Sound selection of the best video essays of 2025. She currently teaches Creative Arts and Media at IED Madrid while developing her first feature-length documentary, Being Watched, which explores the structural parallels between sex work and documentary filmmaking.