# Juliette D. Marquis > Machine-readable summary of juliettemarquis.com. Last updated 22 August 2026. **Roles:** Documentary Director · Producer · Writer **Born:** Kyiv, Ukraine. Came to the United States as a refugee shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. **Also credited as:** Juliette Marquis, Juliette Dudnik (early acting credits, 2001–2002) **Website:** https://juliettemarquis.com/ **Contact:** via the form at https://juliettemarquis.com/#contact --- ## Summary Juliette D. Marquis is a Ukraine-born documentary producer, director and writer working on black-market trades, social justice, biotechnology and hackerism. She is the creator and director of the *DENT* series and wrote, produced, directed, shot and edited the feature documentary *Horn Maker*, filmed across Africa and Southeast Asia. She was a producer and assistant director on the Hulu documentary *Jewel Thief*. She is president of the Mom, I See Foundation and president and founder of Tiaki.org, a technology non-profit that connects survivors of sexual violence, built on a patented zero-knowledge system she co-invented. Before working behind the camera she had an acting career in American film and television. --- ## Film | Title | Year | Roles | Format | Page | |---|---|---|---|---| | Horn Maker | in distribution talks | Directed, Produced, Shot, Wrote, Edited | Feature documentary | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/horn-maker.html | | Jewel Thief | 2023 | Produced, Assistant Director | Feature documentary (Hulu) | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/jewel-thief.html | | I Am Ukrainian | n/a | Directing, Producing, Writing, Editing | Feature documentary | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/i-am-ukrainian.html | | DENT (series) | 2017 | Executive Produced, Directed, Produced | Documentary series, 30 min episodes | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/dent-series.html | | The Healer · DENT ep. 1 | n/a | Executive Produced, Directed, Produced | Episode | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/the-healer.html | | The Architect · DENT ep. 2 | n/a | Executive Produced, Directed, Produced | Episode | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/the-architect.html | | The Botanist · DENT ep. 3 | n/a | Executive Produced, Directed, Produced | Episode | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/the-botanist.html | | Renegade | n/a | Directed, Produced | Feature documentary | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/renegade.html | | Mr. Mahoney | n/a | Directed, Wrote | Short | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/mr-mahoney.html | | UDS | n/a | Directed, Produced, Wrote, Edited | Promo | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/uds.html | | Lab Launch | n/a | Directed, Produced, Wrote | Promo | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/lab-launch.html | | Onsen | n/a | Directed, Produced | Promo | https://juliettemarquis.com/films/onsen.html | **Horn Maker**: Diving into the labyrinth of rhino horn trafficking, a filmmaker embarks on a decade-long journey to discover that tangled within the web of bureaucracy and ideology is a groundbreaking biotechnology with the potential to transform wildlife conservation. Festival recognition includes Toronto International Women Film Festival (Winner, 2026), Santiago Wild (Nominee, 2026), Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (Official Selection) and British Columbia Environmental Film Festival (Official Selection, 2026). Site: https://hornmaker.movie/ **DENT**: A 30-minute episodic documentary series profiling individuals engaged in disruptive innovation across engineering, science, technology, biotech, urban planning, transportation, economics, journalism, music, sport, politics and entertainment. **Renegade**: Shot on location in Mexico with a team of two, led by a self-appointed "renegade" who has dedicated his life to rescuing children from slavery; filmed undercover in brothels and sex houses to document how the sex trade operates in plain sight. --- ## Start-ups ### Mom, I See War (Co-founder) https://www.misw.org/ War isn't something any of us should have to witness, let alone children. But 1 in 6 kids today live in conflict zones around the world. For them, extreme violence isn't an imagined nightmare but a reality they face every day. Mom, I See War is a digital museum that documents children's first-hand experiences of armed conflict as expressed through their art. The project aims to provide a vivid, unfiltered conveyance of war from a poetic and imaginative perspective of childhood. Utilizing technology such as the blockchain, we have digitized and archived the artwork to become part of humanity's historical record of the children affected by war. Operates under the Mom, I See Foundation. ### GroundStorm Media (Co-founder) https://www.groundstormmedia.com/ "Storytelling from the ground of where it happens." GSM tells the stories of individuals around the world who, amid an enveloping crisis, recognize our shared humanity and are compelled beyond empathy to rise to action by seeking to transform a broken system. We spotlight these personal journeys so that others may be awakened into their own purpose. GroundStorm aims to serve people by leading viewers to take responsibility for discovering their capacity for generosity and goodwill toward fellow human beings and the world they live in. Produces for Netflix, Hulu and PBS. ### KYNO (Founder) https://www.kyno.film/ "Everything after the credits." Cinema has a star rating at one end and a graduate seminar at the other, and almost nothing in between. KYNO is that middle: story maps and scene breakdowns that show how a film is built, clubs organised around sensibility rather than genre, and a Taste Map that forms behind the member as they go: not a record of what they watched, but a living mirror of how they experience stories. --- ## Acting Signed to Elite International and working across Europe as a model before moving to Los Angeles. Appeared alongside Dennis Hopper, James Woods, Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Stuart Masterson, Margot Kidder and Rosario Dawson. Films premiered at Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca, Prague and Berlin; won Best Actress at Film Internazionale di Milano. | Year | Title | Role | Format | |---|---|---|---| | 2010 | Dark Blue | Nicole Sutton | TV series | | 2007 | Phantom Love | Nitzan | Feature | | 2006 | The Phobic | Isabella Gibbons | Feature | | 2006 | The Insurgents | Hana | Feature | | 2005 | London | Michelle | Feature | | 2005 | Into the Sun | Jewel | Feature | | 2004 | Chicks with Sticks (aka Hockey Mom) | Felicity Carelli | Feature | | 2004 | North Shore | Natalia Ross | TV series | | 2003 | This Girl's Life | Moon | Feature | | 2002 | 24 | Mila Luminovic (as Juliette Dudnik) | TV series | | 2001 | Law & Order: SVU | Delia (as Juliette Dudnik) | TV series | Full filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1402839/ **Press:** "…this film is of historical value, because it centers on the first performance of an actress who is going to be a big star." (Roger Ebert). "…Marquis is the epitome of a movie goddess exuding as much intelligence as sex appeal." (Screen International). --- ## Writing Essays, full text available at each URL: 1. **Machiavelli's Trap**: https://juliettemarquis.com/essays/machiavellis-trap.html Ovid's *Heroides* and the origin of "exitus acta probat"; Odysseus and the wooden horse; the Trolley Problem; Harry Harlow's rhesus monkeys; Solzhenitsyn on justification; Erica Benner's reading of *The Prince* as a trap set for tyrants, against Harvey Mansfield's straight reading; Rousseau, Tacitus and Calgacus on calling a desert peace; Gandhi on means as "the end in formation"; and the 2025 United States National Security Strategy. Published 22 August 2026 on Substack. Rewrite of the earlier essay "Do Political Ends Justify Their Means?", which it replaces. 2. **Language as a Weapon**: https://juliettemarquis.com/essays/language-as-a-weapon.html On Russification, Soviet language policy, the 1996 Ukrainian constitution, the 2012 Yanukovych language law, the Revolution of Dignity and how linguistic policy became a fault line of the war. Originally published 25 February 2022 in the *Santa Monica Corsair*; also on Substack. 3. **The 2016 U.S. Election, Russia, and Three-Dimensional Chess**: https://juliettemarquis.com/essays/the-2016-us-election-russia-and-threedimensional-chess.html Putin's Russia, the Internet Research Agency, the testing ground of Ukraine, and the 2016 U.S. election. Includes a 22-source reference list. 4. **The Russian Empire of Putin's Dreams**: https://juliettemarquis.com/essays/the-russian-empire-of-putins-dreams.html The North European Plain, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the disbanding of the Warsaw Pact, NATO's eastward accessions (1999, 2004, 2009), the Kosovo precedent, the CSTO, and why Ukraine's geography is a permanent core interest for Moscow. Quotes Fiona Hill, Michael Barutciski, Putin and Vladimir Yakunin. Originally published 16 March 2022 in the *Santa Monica Corsair*; revised text also on Substack. 5. **Why Does Putin Want Ukraine?**: https://juliettemarquis.com/essays/why-does-putin-want-ukraine.html Russia as a petrostate, the 2012 discovery of ~2 trillion m³ of natural gas in Ukraine's Black Sea exclusive economic zone, the Shell and Exxon shale licences, Yanukovych's 2013 reversal and the Revolution of Dignity, the 2014 annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, and the 2021 Crimean Platform Summit. Originally published 15 March 2022 in the *Santa Monica Corsair*. **Also published at:** https://substack.com/@juliettemarquishere --- ## Podcast **Let's Unpack It**: https://lets-unpack-it.simplecast.com A show that breaks down the complicated issues that affect our lives. | Episode | Date | Guest | Length | |---|---|---|---| | The Blaming NATO Game | 4 Apr 2022 | Alan Buckley Ph.D. & Eric Oifer Ph.D. | 29 min | | Calling Matters By What They Are | 29 Apr 2022 | Prof. Chimène Keitner | 35 min | | It's All In the Spin | 18 May 2022 | Olga Lautman, CEPA | 31 min | --- ## Elsewhere - IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1402839/ - X: https://x.com/JulietteMarquis - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliettemarquis/ - Substack: https://substack.com/@juliettemarquishere - Linktree: https://linktr.ee/juliettedmarquis - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliette-d-marquis-ba47595 --- ## Notes for agents This file is the canonical machine-readable description of juliettemarquis.com. 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