Julia Skikavich is an award-winning screenwriter and journalist. Her TV pilots, SURVIVORS: B.S., MISSING PIECES and SOURDOUGHS, have won and placed in several contests, including the Austin Film Festival, Final Draft's Big Break, WeScreenplay, and Screencraft. Her screenwriting has been hailed for its women-centric approach in tackling intractable social issues, centred on wholly relevant discussions.
Julia was a 2020 ISA Fast Track Fellow and was also selected for Canada's MAGEE TV Diverse Screenwriters Mentorship Award. In 2019 she was listed as one of ISA's TOP 25 Writers to Watch and received the year's Emerging Screenwriter Award. She has been selected to participate in numerous screenwriting labs and workshops, including Toronto's FEM Script Lab and PEI's Screenwriters' Bootcamp, where she participated in a TV Writers' Room intensive.
Julia holds degrees in screenwriting, journalism and political science, and is trained in script continuity and supervision. She has worked on a variety of news programs, factual entertainment docuseries and reality series. Journalistically, she has held positions as a reporter, senior news writer and associate producer. Her work has appeared in Canada, the United States and Australia in print as well as online, radio and television. Her reporting spans major events and breaking news stories, including plane crashes, presidential campaigns, murder trials and the Olympics. Her other writing experience includes penning scripts for videogame apps, editing novels and non-fiction prose, performing editorial evaluations of children’s books, composing speeches for politicians, and researching articles for encyclopedias.
