julian higgins / director

JULIAN HIGGINS was born and raised in New Hampshire, where he began making movies in seventh grade.  He received a BFA in Film from Emerson College in Boston, and went on to earn an MFA in Directing at the world-famous American Film Institute Conservatory. 

His AFI thesis film, THIEF – inspired by little-known events in the early life of Saddam Hussein – won the Narrative Gold Medal at the 2011 Student Academy Awards, as well as Best Drama and Best Director honors at the 2011 Student Emmy Awards.  THIEF also won the AFI's Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award, the Grand Prize Vision Award for Best Short at the Heartland Film Festival, the Angelus Film Festival’s Triumph of the Spirit Award, and twenty-one other prizes.  The film is currently playing festivals internationally.

On the strength of the film, Emmy-winning producer-director Greg Yaitanes invited Julian to shadow him during the final season of the acclaimed television drama series HOUSE.  Julian directed episode #15 of the season, which aired on April 2, 2012.

Julian lives in Los Angeles.


Julian on Twitter.

Julian on IMDB.

THIEF on Facebook.

THIEF official site.

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