Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. She wrote, directed, and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know, winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. July’s participatory artworks include the website Learning to Love You More (with artist Harrell Fletcher), Eleven Heavy Things (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale), New Society (a performance), and Somebody (a messaging app.) Raised in Berkeley, July lives in Los Angeles.