Biography

Julian Rubinstein is an Emmy and IRE award-winning director, producer and author. His film, "The Holly" won seven awards, including a national Emmy for Outstanding Regional Documentary in 2025, and was acquired for distribution by Gravitas Ventures. It is streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple Plus.

Rubinstein directed the film while reporting his non-fiction book, "The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood", which follows a gang shooting case and the historic Denver neighborhood where it took place. It was a New York Times Editors Choice and the winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award and the 2022 High Plains Book Award.

Julian's first non-fiction book, "Ballad of the Whiskey Robber", was called "an instant classic" by Canada's Globe and Mail. Film rights were purchased by Johnny Depp and Warner Bros. The book was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime Book and was a New York Times "Editors' Choice."

Julian's magazine work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and others. His journalism has been cited and collected in numerous anthologies, including Best American Essays, Best American Crime Writing, Best American Science and Nature Writing and twice in Best American Sports Writing.

He is Filmmaker and Journalist-in-Residence at Western Colorado University.
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