Julie Anderson

Julie Anderson was named Director, Documentary Programming for Home Box Office in April 1999. She is responsible for the development and commissioning of documentaries for both HBO’s "America Undercover" and Cinemax's "Reel Life" series. One of her first commissioned films, "BIG MAMA" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2001. Julie came to HBO in 1993 as Producer/Director of the documentary "Arthur Ashe, Citizen of the World". She also worked on Spike Lee’s Academy Award nominated "Four Little Girls" for HBO, about the 1963 bombing of the Birmingham Baptist Church in Alabama. Julie spent 1997 working on the Athlete Features Unit for CBS’s coverage of the Nagano Winter Olympic Games in 1998, then returned to HBO to co-produce the Peabody Award winning documentary "Dare To Compete, the Struggle of Women in Sports" about the history of the fight for women’s equality in sports.

Over her career, Julie has garnered four Emmy awards, several ACE awards, and two Peabody Awards for her work on documentary films.

Before coming to HBO, Julie was a producer at ESPN, working solely on their profiles and magazine show programming.

She holds a BA from the University of Vermont.
She also attended university for one year in France.

Julie spent her years directly after college as a Ski Instructor in both Vermont, and in Chile. She was Eastern State Freestyle Skiing Champion.

Julie speaks both French and Spanish.
She is currently studying still photography.