---
name: "Miranda July"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/miranda-july"
fi1m_id: "miranda-july"
imdb_id: "nm0432380"
tmdb_id: 16860
wikidata_id: "Q256671"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "15 February 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T21:23:54.171551+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."
---

# Miranda July

## Identity

Miranda July

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/miranda-july
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** miranda-july
- **IMDb ID:** nm0432380
- **TMDB ID:** 16860
- **Wikidata ID:** Q256671
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_July, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256671, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432380/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16860

Director. Born 15 February 1974 in Barre, Vermont, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 15 February 1974, Barre, Vermont, USA
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 directing, 3 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (2), 2010s 79 (1), 2020s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_July, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256671, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432380/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16860

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Fire of Love*](https://film.one/film/fire-of-love.md) (76)
- **AMC+:** [*Me and You and Everyone We Know*](https://film.one/film/me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Miranda July

> We value Miranda July’s patience with people who cannot quite ask for company. As a director and performer, she makes that embarrassment funny and affecting, though her determination to be peculiar can wear us down.

In *Me and You and Everyone We Know* (2005), Christine Jesperson and Richard Swersey cannot be certain what the other has understood. July gives their courtship time to be awkward, and makes that awkwardness worth watching. She writes, directs and plays Christine, a conceptual artist drawn to a shoe salesman. This feature debut establishes the quality we most value in her work: she takes lonely people seriously without requiring them to behave sensibly.

John Hawkes, as Richard, is an important part of why it works. He makes the hesitancy between them feel plausible, giving July’s more conspicuously odd performance someone to respond to. She allows Christine to need affection without making her eccentricity a virtue in itself. We were moved by their tentative interest in each other, because neither performance makes the embarrassment of wanting company a reason to dismiss the person. The neighbourhood stories have their pleasures, but we wanted to get back to these two.

July’s performance-art background helps explain her willingness to put everyday behaviour alongside surreal elements, though it does not excuse every flourish. After the debut, *The Future* (2011), which she also wrote and directed, took a darker turn towards fears of mortality and commitment. *Kajillionaire* (2020), her third feature as writer-director, brought her concern with connection into a family of con artists. Across these films, the desire for intimacy keeps returning, often expressed through behaviour that is deliberately peculiar.

That peculiarity can become a nuisance. In *Me and You and Everyone We Know*, the minor characters sometimes arrive as a procession of oddities, and the scenes involving young people’s sexuality raise a more serious problem. July’s flat treatment leaves too little room to distinguish innocence from a failure to consider harm; the light comedy moves on before the discomfort has been faced. Kindness towards characters is welcome, but it cannot settle every question about how they treat one another. Start with the debut for July and Hawkes, and do not feel obliged to find every neighbour charming.

## Biography

Miranda July is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, actress and author. She wrote, directed and starred in the 2005 feature *Me and You and Everyone We Know*, playing Christine Jesperson opposite John Hawkes. The film received the Caméra d’Or at Cannes and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance.

July began in performance art and short films before her feature debut. She has since written and directed *The Future* (2011) and *Kajillionaire* (2020). She is also the author of short-story collections and novels, and has a background in multimedia performance and zine publishing.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *Me and You and Everyone We Know* (2005), Fi1m 74, as Christine Jesperson — [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know.md)

### Also credited (3) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Fire of Love* (2022), Fi1m 76, as Self - Narrator (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/fire-of-love.md)
- *Beginners* (2011), Fi1m 79, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/beginners.md)
- *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), Fi1m 80, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *El Planeta* (2021), Thanks
- *150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement* (2021), as Awkward Woman Talking
- *Nichols Canyon Road* (2020), as Eyes-on-the-road · Director
- *Kajillionaire* (2020), Writer, Director
- *Shirley* (2020), Thanks
- *July Interviews July: Deauville, 2005* (2020), Camera Operator, Director
- *Open to the World* (2020), Director
- *How Does It Start* (2019), Thanks
- *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), Thanks — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md)
- *The Shivering Truth* (2018), series, as (voice)
- *Madeline's Madeline* (2018), as Regina
- *Assholes* (2017), Thanks
- *No Light and No Land Anywhere* (2017), Executive Producer
- *20th Century Women* (2016), Thanks
- *Somebody* (2014), as Victoria · Director, Writer
- *Her* (2013), Thanks — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/her.md)
- *Night Giant* (2013), Executive Producer
- *The Future* (2011), as Sophie / Paw-Paw (voice) · Director, Screenplay
- *Beginners* (2011), Thanks — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/beginners.md)
- *Natural Selection* (2011), Thanks
- *Portlandia* (2011), series, as Two Girls, Two Shirts Owner
- *Shoegazer* (2010), Executive Producer
- *I'm Here* (2010), Thanks
- *The Swim Team* (2009), Thanks, Story
- *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), Thanks — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md)
- *Joanie 4 Jackie: A Quick Overview* (2008), Actor
- *Indie Sex: Teens* (2008), Actor
- *Me and You and Everyone We Know* (2005), as Christine Jesperson · Director, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know.md)
- *Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?* (2005), Writer
- *Haysha Royko* (2003), Director
- *The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal* (2002), as Narrator
- *The Center of the World* (2001), Story
- *Getting Stronger Every Day* (2001), Editor, Writer, Director
- *Nest of Tens* (2000), as Woman in Airport · Director, Writer
- *Jesus' Son* (2000), as Black-Eyed Nurse
- *The Amateurist* (1998), Director, Editor, Camera Operator
- *Atlanta* (1996), Director, Camera Operator, Editor
- *The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists* (1995), Assistant Editor
- *The Swan Tool*, as Director
- *Me and You and Everyone We Know at the Sundance Director's Lab*, Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![Miranda July reading at Modern Times Books in San Francisco](https://film.one/media/person/99096/gallery-ba76fa0a3d9c.jpg) Miranda July reading at Modern Times Books in San Francisco — Alexis Barrera / Mesolimbo at en.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Miranda-july-reading.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Miranda July, author, at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading in the NYU Skirball Center.](https://film.one/media/person/99096/gallery-8414ce416963.jpg) Miranda July, author, at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading in the NYU Skirball Center. — Phibeatrice, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Miranda_July%2C_author%2C_at_the_2024_National_Book_Awards_finalist_reading_10.jpg/1280px-Miranda_July%2C_author%2C_at_the_2024_National_Book_Awards_finalist_reading_10.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miranda July, author, at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading in the NYU Skirball Center.](https://film.one/media/person/99096/gallery-9cedfe726444.jpg) Miranda July, author, at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading in the NYU Skirball Center. — Phibeatrice, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Miranda_July%2C_author%2C_at_the_2024_National_Book_Awards_finalist_reading_2.jpg/1280px-Miranda_July%2C_author%2C_at_the_2024_National_Book_Awards_finalist_reading_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miranda July, author, at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading in the NYU Skirball Center.](https://film.one/media/person/99096/gallery-b9e2368362a5.jpg) Miranda July, author, at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading in the NYU Skirball Center. — Phibeatrice, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Miranda_July%2C_author%2C_at_the_2024_National_Book_Awards_finalist_reading_3.jpg/1280px-Miranda_July%2C_author%2C_at_the_2024_National_Book_Awards_finalist_reading_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miranda July](https://film.one/media/person/99096/gallery-949363f14872.jpg) Miranda July — Image via TMDB
- ![Miranda July](https://film.one/media/person/99096/gallery-301f6b1c56ec.jpg) Miranda July — Image via TMDB
- ![Miranda July](https://film.one/media/person/99096/gallery-12cf846c25c0.jpg) Miranda July — Phibeatrice, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Miranda_July%2C_author%2C_at_the_2024_National_Book_Awards_finalist_reading_3_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Miranda_July%2C_author%2C_at_the_2024_National_Book_Awards_finalist_reading_3_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won, 1 nominated

- Guggenheim Fellowship 2025: Guggenheim Fellowship (won)
- Time 100 2025: Time 100 (won)
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction 2016: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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