Julie Bridgham

Julie Bridgham has been working in documentary television for the last ten years and is based in New York. She has lived in Nepal off and on for over five years where she produced and directed numerous documentaries including several for the United Nations, as well as the independent documentary feature "At the Edge of Sufficient" focusing on two families of traders in Nepal's most mountainous and isolated region. She directed and produced "Indentured Daughters," a documentary on Nepali girls sent into bonded labor, as well as the films "Hope in the Himalayas" and "Children of Hope." She was a Producer, Director, Shooter and Writer on the 26 episode documentary series "Exotic Islands" for the Travel Channel, and a Producer and Writer for the 13 episode series "Royal Families of the World." She has worked on series for the BBC, the Discovery Channel and TLC. Before working in documentary television, she worked in Costa Rica as a Project Officer for a UNDP project, and in Bolivia as a researcher for the human rights organization Andean Information Network.

The Sari Soldiers
A film by Julie Bridgham, 2008, 90 min., Color
Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal’s modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six women’...