Jules Nurrish is a renowned screenwriter and director based in Los Angeles, California, who has been honored by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts as a "Brit to Watch". She co-wrote the feature drama Anchor and Hope (2017),a UK-Spanish co-production directed by Carlos Marques Marcet, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and opened the Seville European Film Festival.
Anchor and Hope received widespread critical acclaim, winning the Association of Cinematic Writers of Andalusia award for Best Film and the Gaudí Award for Best Non-Catalan Language Film. The film also received nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Non-Catalan Language Film at the 2018 Gaudí Awards, with Nurrish winning the latter. Additionally, the film won the Best Screenplay award at the 2018 Valletta Film Festival in Malta.
As a director-writer, Nurrish has participated in several prestigious programs, including the Film Independent Directing Lab (2016) and the Berlinale Talent Campus (2015),with her feature boxing drama script Clinch. Her eight short films have screened at numerous film festivals and cultural institutions worldwide, garnering critical acclaim and several awards, including the Best Emerging Filmmaker award at the Palm Springs International ShortFest.
Nurrish's short film Kiss Me (2012) won the Best Emerging Filmmaker award at the Palm Springs International ShortFest and screened at over twenty international film festivals, winning Best Short Film awards at the Bend and Atlanta Film Festivals. Her short film Bend It (2008) was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival, while her first narrative short film No Ordinary Joe (2005) toured the international festival circuit and aired on the BBC Film Network in the UK and on PBS television in the US.
Nurrish is a graduate of the MFA program in Directing and Production at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where she received several awards and fellowships, including the Jack Nicholson Distinguished Director Award, the BAFTA Los Angeles Peter Henton Memorial Award, the George Burns & Gracie Allen Fellowship in Comedy, the BAFTA Los Angeles Fellowship, and the Lynn Weston Fellowship in Film.
