Directory Profile

Julian Cautherley is an Emmy-award winning British/Chinese TV and film producer. He won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2019 for his film Clemency. His projects have been nominated for BAFTAS, Independent Spirit Awards, Emmys, Gotham Awards, DGA awards, PGA awards and have been twice shortlisted for the Oscars. He has been a showrunner on documentary series and produced a wide range of fiction and non-fiction features, series, VR and commercials, which have participated at Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festivals amongst others. Forthcoming productions include Of Night and Light: the story of iboga and ibogaine, directed by two time Academy Award Nominee Lucy Walker, a deep journey into world of science, history and emotional stories of healing of the plant medicine Ibogaine. Recently released is the five-part documentary series The World According to Football, a look at urgent societal issues such as race, gender discrimination, inequality and mental health through the lens of soccer. Narrated by Trevor Noah, the series is produced with Religion of Sports for Showtime & Paramount. 2022 saw the release of the Netflix 4-part Emmy-nominated documentary series How To Change Your Mind, based on the New York Times best seller by Michael Pollan. In 2021, Julian released two films, Bring Your Own Brigade, which premiered at Sundance and was distributed by Paramount and CBS Films. Why Did You Kill Me? was a Netflix Original that received over 30m views in its first 28 days in release. 

Julian’s 2019 drama Clemency, which won the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance and was released theatrically by Neon, received a BAFTA nomination and three Independent Spirit Awards including Best Picture. Other past films include the award-winning documentary The Crash Reel following the dramatic fall and rise of snowboarder Kevin Pearce, a traumatic brain injury survivor. The film premiered at the Sundance film festival and was nominated for a Gotham Award and a DGA Award among others. Previous theatrically-released productions include the fiction feature Never Here starring Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Mireille Enos (The Killing, World War Z) and Oscar Nominee Sam Shepard in his final screen role.  Originally from Hong Kong, Julian teaches documentary producing at USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is a member of the Documentary Producer’s Alliance, Producers United, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Find out more at goodnproper.com