Julia Duarte has worked with production of music and publication of books before entering the film industry in 2006, when she began working in the São Paulo International Film Festival, with whom she’s collaborated until 2017 in many ways, including programing. From 2013 to 2015 she was executive manager of Cinema do Brasil. Living in Portugal since 2016, Julia represented some Brazilian films for international festivals and is now partner of Spamflix.com, an online distribution platform that focuses on arthouse genre films.