BOOKINGS & Purchases

Purchases and Rentals
To program Desire Lines please contact the Film Collaborative. 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@gmail.com.

bio.

Jules Rosskam is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and educator. Through the use of autoethnography and hybrid forms, Rosskam's interdisciplinary practice investigates the means by which we construct individual and collective histories and identities.

Born in Chicago and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Rosskam received a BA in Visual Arts from Bennington College in 2001. He then moved to New York City, where he developed a successful editing and production career working for MTV, The History Channel, Curious Pictures, and a wide variety of independent artists. While in New York, Rosskam joined the non-profit media arts organization Dyke TV, which produced an award-winning cable access television show for the queer community. Rosskam rose through the ranks to Executive Producer, and became one of the key organizers of the show and organization.

In 2005 Rosskam premiered his first feature film, transparent, which was released to critical acclaim and awards both internationally and stateside. Frameline Distribution acquired the film in 2006, and it continues to be one of their more popular films. The film has screened in over 50 film festivals and had its broadcast premiere on PBS in June 2008.

In 2006, Rosskam moved to Chicago to obtain a MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied with artists such as Gregg Bordowitz, Frédéric Moffet, and Sadie Benning. While in Chicago, Jules co-founded the popular monthly film screening series, Threat Level Queer Shorts, which ran from 2008-2010.

In Summer 2007, Jules received a Fellowship from The Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, to support the development of his second feature documentary, against a trans narrative. The film went on to play at film festivals worldwide and had its broadcast premiere on the CBC in June 2010. The Video Data Bank also acquired the film for distribution in 2010.

In 2012, Jules returned to Chicago to shoot his third feature-film Thick Relations. The film has played at festivals worldwide, and continues to screen at colleges and universities in North America.

With the generous support of the Center for Independent Documentary and the LEF Foundation, he finished his fourth feature-length film, Paternal Rites, in 2018. The film had its world premiere at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight in February 2018. Since then, it has played around the world, and been awarded several jury prizes.

In 2018 Jules also completed a short film, Something to Cry About, which is the first in a trilogy of shorts that looks at the oft unexamined aspects of gender transition. It premiered at Anthology Film Archives in April 2018 and continues to play at film festivals around the world. The second film in the trilogy, Dance, Dance, Evolution, was completed in May 2019 and had its world premiere at The 47th annual Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center in July, 2019. It has won multiple awards at film festivals around the world.

In 2021 Jules received a Creative Capital Award in support of his mot recent feature-length hybrid documentary, Desire Lines. In this film, history comes alive when an Iranian-American transman time-travels through the LGBT archives on a dizzying quest to unravel his own sexual desires. Desire Lines is produced by Full Spectrum Features and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024. The film has played around the world at dozens of film festivals and has been awarded 6 jury prizes, including the NEXT Special Jury Award at Sundance, the Emerging Documentary Award at the Milwaukee International Film Festival, and the Narrative Change Award at the Vancouver Queer Film festival.

Rosskam is also a fine artist whose paintings, installations, and performances have shown in galleries and venues throughout the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, he is a noted lecturer, speaker, and professor who has held positions at Hampshire College, SUNY Old Westbury, and Indiana University—Purdue, Fort Wayne, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.