Julia Meltzer is a filmmaker and director of Clockshop, a non-profit arts organization. Her film and video work has been broadcast nationally on POV and exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, The Toronto International Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Over the past decade, she has worked extensively in Syria, teaching and producing and directing films. Meltzer is a recipient of the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and she was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005-2006.