Julia Fox to make feature directing debut with 'Sixth Avenue Saints'

Julia Fox is stepping behind the camera for her first feature film. 

The downtown fashion icon and Uncut Gems breakout is set to write and direct Sixth Avenue Saints, a period piece set in 1993 against the gritty, pre-gentrified backdrop of Brooklyn and Downtown Manhattan.

The story follows Luan, a sensitive 12-year-old navigating a fractured household in Coney Island, whose life shifts after he's introduced to a hidden side of New York by Frankie, a fearless homeless street kid surviving on his own. 

According to the production, Frankie brings Luan into contact with the piers, queer street life, hustlers, sex workers, addicts and other outsiders living on the margins of the city.

The film is already casting extras, seeking locals between 35 and 79 to bring authentic "Brooklyn/NYC vibes" to the project. 

Per casting listings on Backstage, extras will be paid $20 an hour with a guaranteed $100 minimum per day, and no professional acting experience is required, according to 25 Casting agent Katya Chernetsova.

Fox, 36, broke out in 2019 with her feature debut in the Safdie brothers' Uncut Gems opposite Adam Sandler, and has since built a multifaceted career spanning acting, modeling, writing and fashion, establishing herself as one of downtown culture's most recognizable figures. 

This isn't her first time directing, she wrote and directed the 2021 short film Fantasy Girls, which followed sex workers in Nevada.