Documentaries | Julie Mallozzi Productions

Julie Mallozzi’s documentary films explore the ways in which we "repurpose" culture and history to address contemporary social problems. She works independently with funding from public television, private foundations, and individual donors. She also collaborates with other filmmakers on a freelance basis. Julie's major works to date include:

Indelible Lalita is a poetic documentary about an Indian woman who completely loses her skin pigment as she migrates from Bombay to Paris to Montréal. Now 60 and appearing White, Lalita copes with a changing identity as she battles ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and heart failure. Lalita learns to let go of her body as the sign of her ethnicity and femininity – and ultimately realizes that her body is just a temporary vessel for her spirit. (Video and Installation, in progress)

Three Cambodian-American teenagers come of age in a world shadowed by their parents' nightmares of the Khmer Rouge. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their parents’ culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism, and new romance pull harder. Gradually coming to appreciate their parents’ sacrifices, the three teens find a sense of themselves and begin to make good on their parents’ dreams. (65 minutes, 2004)

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A young filmmaker travels to China to meet her mother's family for the first time, and gets caught in a web of politics and history. Weaving together dreams, archival footage, and scenes from her relatives' lives, she meditates on the complications of remembering and forgetting the past. (52 minutes, 1999)

From 1850 to 1930, over 200,000 orphan children were sent from New York and Boston to find homes in the Midwest. Trains full of kids would stop at small towns where local farmers came to "indenture" or adopt them. This 16mm student film explores this little-known history through the eyes of the last surviving orphan train riders. (15 minutes, 1992)