Juanita Wilson

Juanita Wilson is an Irish director and writer from Dublin. Her short film The Door received an Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) in 2009 and an Academy Award nomination in 2010. Her debut feature film As If I Am Not There received the 2011 Irish Film and Television Award for best film, best script, and best director.

Early life Wilson attended the National College of Art and Design where she studied fine art as well as Dublin Institute of Technology where she studied design and journalism. She began directing after this. She produced the films Inside I'm Dancing and H3. She was inspired to go there after seeing an abandoned playground with a Ferris wheel on the Internet. The Door was nominated in the category of Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. The Door also won awards at film festivals held in Bilbao, Cork and Foyle.

As If I'm Not There Wilson's first feature film, titled As If I'm Not There, based upon the book by Slavenka Drakulić, was released in 2010. The film was a joint Irish production alongside Macedonia and Sweden. It was being filmed in Macedonia. The film was selected as the Irish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.