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2D Hand Drawn Animation, Storyboard, Character Design


Julia Speropoulos is a Greek American artist/animator/director/producer who began her artistic journey at a very young age, when she won first prize at a National Greek competition, a gold medal for her gouache painting  "Spring Scenery," where she won a 20-day scholarship to Paris. She also won a silver medal, with a honorable mention the previous year for the oil pastel mixed media painting "The Hawk And The Snake".


Upon high school graduation and all throughout her years as as student at Florida International University,  Julia had been commissioning iconography paintings (egg tempera, antiqued technique), and other works of art using various mediums such as oil, acrylic and more. She has also held several exhibitions in various venues in Greece and the USA. After a sabbatical for several years on art due to her career as an actress/performer in theater, and as a film director/producer at JS FILM PRODUCTIONS, she's back in the game. She started receiving training in 2020 at Creature Art Teacher on art/animation/character design with the great Disney director/animator/character designer/artist Aaron Blaise and other great artists. In 2021, she completed the animation segments in her first feature film, an award-winning creative documentary titled "2 Miles From Home." She's currently animating her first hand-drawn animation film titled "AGAPI," released in January 2025.


As a film director/producer, Julia's credits include award-winning documentary short "Jean" (2017), award-winning mid-length documentary "Yubi" (2018), "APHASIA" experimental film (2018), and award-winning feature creative documentary "2 Miles From Home" (2021). Her films have travelled to various festivals across the globe. Collaborations with channels include among others the Greek national channel ERT, and Cosmote TV History, with which she has collaborated for the last 3 years for acquisition of film rights in Greece and Cyprus.
 

She graduated with a theater arts degree in acting from Florida International University (Bachelor of Arts in Theatre). She also studied at New York Film Academy, NY, where she learned filmmaking and acting for film. 


Julia Speropoulos is currently traveling between Greece and the USA.


 Take a few minutes to check out her film trailers and portfolio!


Filmography

2025, AGAPI, animator/producer/director/writer, hand drawn 2D animation short, in production, USA Greece. 
2021, 2 MILES FROM HOME, director/producer/writer, feature length documentary with 2d animation, Greece.
  • World Premiere in the Documentary section at 15th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, USA, 2021.
  • International Premiere in the Platform section at the 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2021.
  • Winner of the Festival Award for best feature documentary at the 8th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra, Crete 2021.
  • Official Selection at the Orient Express Film Festival, Bern-Zurich-Basel, Switzerland 2021.
  • Official Selection in the Competition Section at Docfest, Greece 2021.
  • Acquired by COSMOTE TV - HISTORY May 2022-April 2023, Greece-Cyprus.
2018, YUBI, director/producer/writer, mid-length documentary, Greece.
  • Winner of 3rd Prize Documentary Award in the Greek short section at the 5th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra, Crete 2018.
  • Official Selection at the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, in the Human Rights category, 2019. 
  • Official Selection at the 8th Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, 2019.
  • Official Selection at the 12th Greek Documentary Festival Docfest, in the Panorama category, 2018.
  • • Selection at the 59th Krakow Film Festival, at the Market section, Krakow Poland, 2019.
2018, APHASIA, director/producer/writer, experimental short fiction, Greece.
  • Finalist at FilmOlympiad Film Festival, Greece 2021.
2017, JEAN, director/producer/writer, documentary short, Greece.
  • Winner of Best First Film of a Director at the 4th International Documentary Film Festival Ierapetra, Crete, 2017. 
  • Winner of Special Mention award in the Documentary Section at the 7th Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, 2018. 
  • Officially Selected at Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona/NYC/Paris, 2017, Barcelona Spain. 
  • 3rd Place in the Audience Award Section at the 4th Peloponnisos Doc Festival, Kalamata, Greece. 
  • Officially Selected at ROMA CINEMA DOC, 2017, Rome, Italy. 
  • Officially Selected at MINDIE Miami Independent Film Festival, 2017, Miami, Florida, USA. 
  • First Selection at the International Short Film Festival Kalmthout, Belgium, 2017.
2015 Tomorrow in battle, think of me, assistant director, short film, Greece.
2015 Es Avrion Ta Spoudaia, assistant director, ERT channel, Greece.
2014 Sewer Stories-Metropolis show, host/as.director, documentary short, VPRO channel, Holland.
2013 Aisha, assistant director and voice of “Aisha”, short film, filming, Greece.
2013 Sunflower Seeds, assistant director, documentary short, Greece.


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