JENNIFER TIEXIERA is an award winning filmmaker and one of the co-founders of Lady & Bird, a female led documentary production company focused on telling stories from underrepresented voices. She most recently completed SPEAK, a film following five American teens as they spend a year crafting spoken word performances with the dream of winning the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competition (Official Selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival) and Rebbeca, an intimate portrait of the artist, Becky G at a crossroads between two cultures, navigating identity, family, expectations and fame which will be released at the 2025 TriBeCa Film Festival later this year.
Previously, she directed the three-part series, Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo for HBO which was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary and was a finalist for the 2024 duPont-Columbia Award. Her feature length documentary, Subject made it’s debut at the 2022 TriBeCa Film Festival and in 2020, she completed P.S. Burn this Letter Please– a film that begins with the impossible discovery of a box of letters that date back to the early 1950’s and reveal an untold and secret history of New York’s LGBT community. P.S. Burn this Letter Please made its debut at the 2021 TriBeCa Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature at the 2020 OutFest Film Festival. In 2019, she completed 17 Blocks– a documentary directed by Davy Rothbart and spanning over 20 years as it intimately follows the lives of a Washington DC family deeply affected by gun violence. 17 Blocks premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival where Tiexiera was awarded Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film. In 2017, she both produced and edited the documentaries, A Suitable Girl, winner of the Albert Maysles Award at the TriBeCa Film Festival and Waiting for Hassana, official selection of the Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto Film Festivals.
Tiexiera has produced and edited numerous VR documentaries as well- ZIKR: A Sufi Revival and The Day the World Changed, official selections of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and 2018 TriBeCa Film Festival respectively. She conducted IDA Extended Reality (XR) Master Class and in 2017, she edited The Last Goodbye which made it’s debut at the 2017 TriBeCa Film Festival, internationally at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival, and won the 2018 Lumiere Award for Best VR Documentary.
Her previous work also includes the documentary, Salam Neighbor, narrative film, Road to Paloma and the 2011 SXSW Documentary Grand Jury Winner, Dragonslayer. Some of her television credits include documentaries, Oprah Builds a Network and Biggie : The Notorious Life of B.I.G., the Emmy-nominated ESPN film, The Marinovich Project, and short film Woinshet, directed by Marisa Tomei and Lisa Leone for PBS. Tiexiera is a proud member of Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the International Documentary Association, Women in Film, Film Fatales, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has recently served as a mentor for the inaugural HBO Documentary Films and The Gotham Film & Media Institute’s Documentary Development Initiative, The Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellowship, and The Academy Gold Mentorship Program.
Co-Founder
CAMILLA HALL is a documentary film director known for her Tribeca hit COPWATCH (2017) her Storyville/Arte feature GARENNE (2021) and SUBJECT which she co-directed with Jen Tiexiera and which was nominated for Best Documentary at Tribeca in 2022. She directed two episodes of KINGDOM OF DREAMS, a new series on the rise of the luxury business for Misfits Entertainment, Sky & HBO Max airing in late 2022. She produced the Emmy-nominated CIRCUS OF BOOKS now on Netflix and our very own Rita Baghdadi’s film SIRENS. She is an Executive Producer on BLACK BARBIE: A DOCUMENTARY. She is focused on character-driven stories that have societal value and enjoys finding the universal message in unexpected stories. She has filmed all over the United States, U.K, India, Tunisia, and Turkey. She is represented by Stern & Wild.
Co-Founder
Rita Baghdadi is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker known for the intimacy of her bold, character-driven films. Rita’s film SIRENS premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. Executive Produced by Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph, the film was praised as “utterly charming,” “smartly crafted” and “a bold rebellion.” The film was acquired by Oscilloscope for theatrical release across the U.S. and is now available on VOD. Recently, her film FINDING THE LIGHT, about photographer Muhammed Muheison, premiered on Disney+. Rita is a 2024 Concordia Fellow, a 2023 Sundance Momentum Fellow and DOC NYC's ‘40 under 40’ class of 2022. For her upcoming film STALLIONS she received grants from Chicken & Egg and Catapult Film Fund. Rita is repped by WME and is currently in development and production on several new films and series.
Co-Founder
Stephanie is a documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience in the industry.
Born and raised in Colorado, Stephanie built her career at Kartemquin Films in Chicago, having recently moved back to her home state. She has worked across every phase of the filmmaking process, including development, production, post-production and distribution.
Stephanie’s primary focus is outreach and impact for social-issue documentaries. She specializes in using grassroots methods that transform films into engagement tools for positive change.
Recent collaborations include “For the Left Hand” from Kartemquin Films, Lucia Small’s final film “Girl Talk,” and the award-winning “Subject.”
STEPHANIE SUNATA
Operations Manager
Kylie is a filmmaker and recent graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Raised in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Kylie developed a deep appreciation for character and visual storytelling from a young age. With experience ranging from development to post-production, she has worked to amplify underrepresented stories throughout each step of the filmmaking process. She is currently focused on documentary editing, and is dedicated to harnessing the full potential of compelling stories. As she continues to carve her path in the documentary film industry, Kylie remains committed to honing in on the medium’s capacity for social change and representation.
KYLIE LUDVIKSEN
Associate Producer