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name: "Julie Parker Benello"
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roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:41:13.857670+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Julie Parker Benello

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110482992, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2742781/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1409453

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*American Factory*](https://film.one/film/american-factory.md) (78)

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## Biography

Julie Parker Benello is a film producer. She co-founded Chicken & Egg Pictures in 2005 and is the founder of Secret Sauce Media. She has worked as a producer and executive producer on numerous documentary and narrative features, often supporting projects by women filmmakers.

She produced *American Factory* (2019), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and *Athlete A* (2020). Other credits include *Honeymoon* (2014), *The Invitation* (2015), *Swallow* (2020) and *Sell/Buy/Date* (2022). Earlier in her career she co-produced *Blue Vinyl* and worked as a production executive and archival researcher.

Benello is based in San Francisco. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Branch and the Producers Guild of America.

*Sources: imdb.com, chickeneggfilms.org, hotchkiss.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *American Factory* (2019), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/american-factory.md)

## Also known for

- *The Invitation* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Swallow* (2020), Co-Executive Producer
- *Freeheld* (2015), Co-Executive Producer
- *Honeymoon* (2014), Executive Producer
- *The Tale* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Buster's Mal Heart* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Athlete A* (2020), Producer
- *The Queen of Versailles* (2012), Co-Executive Producer

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