Julia Carias-Linares

About Julia Carias-Linares

Julia Carias-Linares is a founding partner and CEO of Freedom Studios, Inc. She is a TV & film producer, actress, real estate stager, interior designer, and businesswoman. Carias-Linares’ expertise is in sourcing projects, developing talent, and securing intellectual properties. As a television executive, she has worked for three of A+E Television Networks’ brands – Lifetime, A&E, and fyi. She was part of the development & programming core team that successfully re-branded the Biography channel to fyi, into the #1 upscale entertainment network on ad-supported cable in 2015. She produced some of the top-rated series for the network including Married Life (2017 Primetime Emmy Consideration), Married At First Sight (2015 Critics Choice Awards Nominee), Seven Year Switch, & many more. Since 2019, she has executive produced the OMNI Cultural TV Fest in partnership w/ NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives), an event for independent creators to showcase their ideas to TV Networks, Streamers, & Over-The-Top (OTT) distributors. In 2019, she executive produced & starred in her short film, Perception, a story about immigration from two points of view. The film was a festival favorite receiving 14 awards including 2 for “Best Lead Actress” in a drama and over 20 nominations. In 2020, Perception received a distribution deal from AmazonPrime and PiccenPlay.com. In 2017, Carias-Linares, executive produced 13 episodes of Kiki Mobile, a reality, mobile entertainment newsmagazine series, that aired on A+E Networks\' lifestyle channel, fyi. As a fearless entrepreneur, Carias-Linares has created opportunities for herself & leveraged her love for interior design & background in tv home shows to do her first million-dollar listing home staging project. In December 2016, she teamed up with her husband, Alfredo Linares, & launched JCL Staging & Design, a brand working with top producing brokers in the luxury residential real estate market in the New York tri-state area. JCL has designed for Compass, Douglas Elliman, Luxian International Realty, A+E Television Networks, History channel, Discovery, & TLC channel. Her designs have been featured in the NYTimes, Apartment Therapy, Dormify, & HeyBeauti Magazine. She studied acting at the renowned American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. Committed to giving back to her community, she donates countless hours to many community-driven causes. She is a supporter of Wonder Girls US and The Cristian Rivera Foundation. She is a member of the Executive Peer Group for the Television Academy.

Experience

1. Partner CEO

   Freedom Studios

   May 2019 — Present · NY, US

   Responsible for setting the strategic direction, managing the creative and operational aspects of content development and production, and ensuring the financial and overall success of the organization in a competitive and ever-evolving media landscape.

Education

• College of Mount Saint Vincent

  Bachelors of Arts, Communications

  2001 — 2007

• American Academy of Dramatic Arts

  Acting Studies

  1997 — 1998