Julie Hartley has been production managing and producing entertainment and media projects for the past forty years. Her career began at Twin Cities Public Television (PBS) as Production Manager for national programs. The majority of programs she managed were multi-camera, live event programs. Julie also managed the Prairie Home Companion series live via satellite to the Disney Channel. She then worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the TV Features Department. And, was the in-house producer for Prince’s Paisley Park Productions.
Julie made the leap to independent feature film production in 1988 with the production of Old Explorers. She produced World and Time Enough, With or Without You, Wooly Boys and Brothers Three: An American Gothic. She worked as a production manager on several studio features including My Cousin Vinny, A Simple Plan (2nd Unit), Out of the Furnace, Hot Pursuit, and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. She worked as the Line Producer on Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys, Smother, Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion, Thin Ice, In The Blood, and the Phillip Noyce thriller, Above Suspicion. Julie also production managed the Oscar nominated Vice for Annapurna and John Wick 3 for Lionsgate.
She made the transition to television on the pilots for Deputy and I Love That For You. She has been a producer and UPM on all three seasons of the Showtime series The L Word: Generation Q and the limited series “Super Pumped”. Julie has traveled extensively and worked on over thirty-five feature films and many more television programs, commercials, music videos, internet projects and corporate videos.