LYNX
from theatre to film
Julia has been the artistic director of LYNX since 2015. The Second World was the first play by this new Theatre Group about informers of the Secret Services and opposition members behind the Iron Curtain and was based on Julia’s interviews with her Polish-Russian family. The Second World blended musical theatre with film projections and animation. The play toured the Netherlands and Belgium and was shown in February 2018 at the Nowe Epiphanie Festival in Warsaw, Poland.
Apocalypse How, directed by Ivar van Urk, had its premiere in 2019. This black comedy by Simon Weeda about ‘doomsday preppers’, conspiracy theories, money-minded people and about great concern for the planet, toured the stages.
In 2020 Julia decided to make a shift with LYNX from theatre to film. In coproduction with Zeelandia, LYNX Film produced for the Zeeland Nazomer Festival 2020 SOBER, directed by Joël Duinkerke. Based on a text by Paul Pourveur, Julia wrote the screenplay for this short film in which she played the main character of Adriana.
LYNX Films first feature, UNDER WATER, a fiction film debut by Edgar Kapp and Kuba Szutkowski, based on Apocalypse How, had its world premiere on September 11, 2022 at Film by the Sea. It was nominated in the Competition 1-2 at the 38th Warsaw International Film Festival (FIAPF approved), was in the running for Narrative Feature Jury Award at the 29th Austin Film Festival (out of 5400 entries) and officially selected for CineQuest (voted #1 film festival by USA Today).
In the spring of 2023 distributor Amstelfilm released UNDER WATER in Dutch cinemas. You can watch the film V.O.D. on Pathé Thuis, Amazon Prime Video, Googleplay and iTunes.