Jules Hart is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, director, and editor, and the founder of Eye Goddess Films. Her work has aired on PBS and screened at film festivals across the country, earning numerous awards and honors, including Best Female Filmmaker at the Action on Film Festival in Pasadena and an Emerging Artist Award at the Beloit International Film Festival. Her films have been recognized at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, the Carmel International Film Festival, and the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in New York City.

Hart's work explores the intersection of human experience, social change, and the natural world, often focusing on unconventional individuals who challenge established beliefs and expectations.

Her latest documentary project, Robbie & Friends, follows an eccentric 82-year-old environmental visionary, inventor, and lifelong counterculture rebel whose unconventional approach to ecology, spirituality, and life itself challenges conventional wisdom. Blending humor, philosophy, and environmental discovery, the film explores one man's determination to leave the planet better than he found it.

Hart is also expanding her work in narrative filmmaking. Her original feature screenplay, Dark Lulu, a Southern Gothic family drama exploring generational trauma, inheritance, and redemption, received an Honorable Mention for Best Screenplay at the 2026 Carmel International Film Festival. Set in Missouri wine country, the story follows two estranged sisters drawn back into the orbit of their formidable grandmother after a mysterious house fire.

Her acclaimed documentary, Pink Smoke Over the Vatican, chronicles the courageous women challenging the Roman Catholic Church's prohibition against female priests. The film received numerous awards, including Best Documentary at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, and was screened at a parallel session of the 2011 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and at Michael Moore's State Theatre in Traverse City, Michigan.

Other documentary credits include The Healing Pole, a PBS documentary about a group of at-risk California youth who carved a totem pole as a gift to New York City following the September 11 attacks. As an editor, Hart has contributed to numerous documentary productions, including Condor Canyon, which premiered at the 2024 Carmel International Film Festival and has aired on public television, and The Way I See: The Light and Life of Photographer William Giles.

Hart is also developing Koholā: Towards the Light, a documentary exploring the extraordinary journey of a 1,500-year-old redwood transformed into a sculpture of a mother humpback whale and her calf, symbolizing the interconnectedness of forests, oceans, and the natural world.

Through Eye Goddess Films, Hart continues to pursue stories that illuminate the human spirit, challenge conventional thinking, and reveal the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

 

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