Julia Parnell

Julia Alice Parnell
Julia accepting her WIFT NZ award
Born	1979 Kenya, East Africa
Country	New Zealand

Julia Parnell (born 1979) is a New Zealand film and television producer

Julia Parnell attended South Seas Film & Television School, going on to work at several independent television companies around Auckland, including Eyeworks Touchdown, Screentime and Greenstone Pictures Limited, before becoming the Head of Production at ButoBase Film & TV Company. She worked at ButoBase for 6 years, producing, directing and providing creative input into more than three hundred television episodes over fourteen series. In 2010, Parnell won the Great Southern Television Woman to Watch Award., having been a finalist in the same category in 2009. Parnell left Butobase in early July 2010 to start her own production company Notable Pictures.

Since the opening of Notable Pictures Parnell has produced a diverse range of projects including two series of Bring Your Boots, OZ in collaboration with Maori Television's Glen Osborne, a documentary funded by Maori Television and New Zealand On Air about Henare O'Keefe, Māori social crusader and District Councilor for Hastings, New Zealand, Both Worlds a New Zealand On Air funded documentary series for broadcast on TV3 ,in which ten second generation New Zealanders share their experiences of either living a cultural clash or enjoying the best of both worlds, and a probing one-hour documentary on Māori restorative justice. Restoring Hope a probing one-hour documentary on Māori restorative justice and The Exponents, a Prime Rocks Documentary for Prime Television funded by New Zealand On Air that celebrates 30 years of The Exponents, a band whose sound defines what it means to be a Kiwi.

Parnell has recently expanded into producing drama with two short films Hitch Hike and Friday Tigers, and a third film, Dive, in pre-production, all three funded by the New Zealand Film Commission.