Jules lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Neptune, NJ.

BOOKINGS & Purchases

Purchases and Rentals
To program Desire Lines at a film festival please contact The Dazey Phase. To purchase Desire Lines for your college, university, or organization, please contact Collective Eye Films. Desire Lines is available on multiple platforms for at-home viewing.

To book Dance, Dance, Evolution, Something to Cry About, or Thick Relations for a public screening, film festival, gallery show, classroom use, or for institutional and individual purchases please contact mamsirproductions@gmail.com

To book against a trans narrative, or Paternal Rites for a public screening, film festival, gallery show, classroom use, or for institutional and individual purchases please contact the Video Data Bank at info@vdb.org

For screenings and/or purchase of transparent in North America please contact info@frameline.org. For all other inquiries regarding transparent, contact mamsirproductions@gmail.com

Appearances, Workshops, & Consultations
Jules is available to attend screenings of his films in order to enhance the experience with a post-screening Q&A.

You can book him to come to your university, college, or film festival in order to give workshops, demonstrations, and/or lectures.

Jules is also available for hire as a consultant on your film project. He also takes on editing jobs from time to time. Editing is one of his great passions; if you have a project that might be a good fit for his unique set of skills, send an email to julesrosskam@pm.me

bio.

Jules Rosskam is a filmmaker, editor, and educator with over two decades of experience in nonfiction storytelling. His work explores ethics, embodiment, and the relationship between form and politics, often focusing on trans experience through a trans lens. His most recent film, DESIRE LINES, received a Creative Capital Award (2021), and premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the NEXT Special Jury Award, along with six additional jury prizes on the festival circuit. He is also the director of the award-winning films DANCE, DANCE, EVOLUTION (2019), SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT (2018), THICK RELATIONS (2012), AGAINST A TRANS NARRATIVE (2009), and TRANSPARENT (2005).

His work has screened around the world at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, the British Film Institute, Arsenal Berlin, Anthology Film Archives, Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Gene Siskel Film Center, Sundance, BFI Flare, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Provincetown International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, NewFest, and Frameline. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, ISSUE Project Room, Marble House, PLAYA and ACRE. Additionally, he is a noted lecturer, speaker, and former college professor who has held positions at Hampshire College, Sarah Lawrence College, Purdue, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he was awarded tenure in 2024.