Julie Parker Benello

For the past ten years, Julie Parker Benello has produced documentaries on health and environmental issues for television. In 2002, Julie co-produced the Sundance award winning HBO documentary Blue Vinyl, a film in search of the truth about vinyl (PVC), America’s most popular plastic.

Julie’s commitment to linking filmmaking to environmental health started with her producing a one-hour documentary Prostate Cancer: A Journey of Hope which aired nationally on PBS in June 1999, attracting over 3.5 million viewers and was chosen as one of their ten outreach projects for that year.

In 2005, Julie founded Chicken & Egg Pictures, an innovative film company which provides grants and executive produces select film projects by women filmmakers.

Julie currently serves on the board of The Global Fund for Women and Slide Ranch. She lives in San Francisco and is the mother of two young daughters.