Julia Pistor has over twenty years of leadership experience in family entertainment as both a Content Producer and Senior Executive with proven success across disciples and a background that spans feature film, TV, streaming, branded content, and consumer products. A nimble leader, she combines management ability with creative expertise to develop and produce compelling stories and IP in animation and live action, shape and execute strategy, and build collaborative partnerships. Julia is continually inspired by the ever-evolving ways we tell and share stories. As a film producer and executive with the Nickelodeon branded feature film division, Julia identified and produced over fifteen highly successful animated and live-action franchise feature films including The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The Rugrats films, Nacho Libre, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, Charlotte's Web, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Good Burger, and Harriet the Spy. In 2015 Julia joined the flagship Barbie brand, acting as its Chief Content Officer. She played a key role in transforming the $1.5B+ brand into a contemporary, inspirational and highly profitable platform for girls and women including developing and executing a new 360 content strategy that made Barbie the first-ever animated YouTube influencer (driving over 10MM subscribers), a top ranked animated series for Netflix, Dreamhouse Adventures, the brand's first pre-school franchise extension, Dreamtopia, an award winning Hulu documentary, Tiny Shoulders. She also set-up the record breaking live action feature film, Barbie. Julia runs her own production and consulting company. Clients have included will.i.am, HiT Entertainment, Overbrook, Great Wolf Lodge and Cartoon Network where she produced the Emmy and Annie award winning movie Firebreather with Peter Chung. She has recently produced The Magician's Elephant feature film for Netflix Animation Studios. Raised in the American Foreign Service, Julia was born in Africa, lived in India, but spent most of her childhood in London. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, The Producers Guild of America, Women in Animation, and The Television Academy.

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