ROJA + JULIA

Writers/directors Roja Gashtili and Julia Lerman are the creative team behind Anchor and Folly. Their work has been recognized by the Sundance and Slamdance screenplay competitions, as an Emerging Narrative at IFP’s Independent Film Week 2010 and as finalists for the 2010 SFFS/Hearst Screenwriting Grant.

Their first script, Pretty To Think So, was optioned for feature film rights in the summer of 2010.

In the summer of 2011, they were artists-in-residence at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway.

Prior to working together, Roja worked with Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions (Enron: The Smartest Men in the Room, Client No. 9) and on Charles Ferguson’s Oscar-nominated No End in Sight. She is a graduate of UC Irvine's writing program.

Julia previously worked on Showtime’s This American Life and was selected for The Play Development Collective’s inaugural workshop for emerging playwrights in NYC. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University.