JENNIFER TIEXIERA is an award winning documentary director, producer and editor and one of the co-founders of Lady & Bird. Most recently, she directed 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. was slated to make its debut at the 2020 TriBeCa Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature at the 2020 Outfest Film Festival. In 2019, she wrote and edited 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 made its debut at the 2019 TriBeCa Film Festival where she was awarded Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film. In 2017, she both produced and edited the documentaries, 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. Jen is a proud member of the Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the Documentary Producers Alliance, the International Documentary Association, LatinX Directors, Women in Film and Film Fatales and is currently in post-production directing her next documentary feature, SUBJECT.
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
Karen previously held leadership roles at BlackRock and Allen & Overy, and now provides advisory services to high growth technology start-ups / scale-ups and creative arts businesses. She is deeply passionate about climate issues, health and wellbeing and the arts, but above all, loves working with, and connecting, talented, fun people who are building businesses to tackle complex global problems. She brings deep experience, and a broad and diverse network, across tech, finance, law and the arts and is always looking for ways to build relationships and collaborate across these different communities. She has lived and worked in 7 countries so far, being currently based between Lisbon and London.
KAREN LEE
Advisor
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