Julie Wiles is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from Columbus, Ohio. Her career has taken her from NYC, Florida and back to Ohio where she currently resides. Her work has spanned over the last twenty years in creative development, production and post-production of both non-scripted independent and commercial projects for film and television. Julie’s work focuses on de-stigmatizing mental illness through up-close portraits of individuals sharing their deeply personal stories, as well as the inequities in access to resources for the marginalized.
About
Julie Wiles graduated from Ohio State University with a B.F.A. in Sculpture. She went on to study film at Ohio University where she received an M.F.A. in Film. Her first documentary feature film, WE ARE MARY won second place for Best Feature Documentary at the Bushwick Film Festival and screened at Columbus International Film Festival in 2017. WE ARE MARY has over 250,000 views on YouTube and has attracted quite a following.
We Are Mary tells the frank, heart-wrenching story of a woman who has suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder during most of her adult life. This inspiring documentary explores the resilience of the human spirit, chronicling Mary's triumph over her past trauma, as she works towards her life-long goal: a college degree. Breaking with the convention of the talking-head documentary, this film relies on Mary's own recollections (and those of her adult daughter, Tammie) to tell her story.
ECT: Electro-Convulsive Therapy
Julie’s in the post-production phase of her second feature documentary film that’s due to be released Fall of 2024. ECT recounts Julie’s choice to leave NYC in order to receive ECT treatments in Tampa, Florida, at one of the most renowned ECT clinics in the nation after becoming treatment resistant to antidepressant medication.