COMPLETED PROJECTS
REST STOP
PRODUCER
DIRECTED BY: CRYSTAL KAYIZA
A young Ugandan-American girl gains a new understanding of her family and her place in the world as she travels with her mother and brother from New York to Oklahoma, in this richly textured drama by Crystal Kayiza.
Winner of the Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
SELECTED SCREENINGS: TIFF, Sundance, SXSW, Blackstar, New Orleans, Hamptons International Film Festival, Nitehawk Shorts
UPCOMING WORKS
ADAM’S APPLE
PRODUCER
DIRECTED BY: AMY AND ADAM JENKINS
ADAM’S APPLE is a personal documentary about a family in transition, intimately filmed from the perspectives of Director Amy Jenkins and her 19-year-old transgender son, Adam, each with a camera in hand. Through verité and metaphorical imagery, the film artistically chronicles the evolution of Adam’s identity beginning at toddlerhood, unveiling the ever-shifting family dynamic as Adam charts a path towards his own version of manhood.
Supported by The Sundance Institute, The Perspective Fund, LEF Foundation, and The Film Study Center at Harvard
BUG FARM
PRODUCER
DIRECTED BY: LYDIA CORNETT
Four distinct women form a bond over crickets, superworms, and roaches on an insect farm in the small town of LaBelle.
Premiered on Nowness, Reel South Shorts, and POV
SELECTED SCREENINGS: New Orleans Film Festival, BAMCinemaFest, AFI Docs
KIND OF
PRODUCER
DIRECTED BY: NOAH SCHAMUS
Two trans masculine folks in a newly open relationship prepare to host brunch but end up hashing out their insecurities about the relationship in the minutes before their friends arrive.
Premiered at Outfest in 2020
SELECTED SCREENINGS: NewFest, Oxford Film Festival, BFI Flare, Maryland Film Festival, Inside Out, Provincetown Film Festival
THE GRAIN OF VOICE
PRODUCER
DIRECTED BY: LYDIA CORNETT
THE GRAIN OF VOICE, inspired by Roland Barthes' 1972 essay, explores the intricate negotiations of bodily structures, social identities, and institutionalized power at the ineffable site of the singing voice. Through interconnected narratives, the film follows disparate singers as they navigate the meanings embedded in their relationships to their voices.
A REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE
CO-PRODUCER
DIRECTED BY: MAYA CUEVA
A REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE shines a light on Dr. Quentin Young, a Jewish doctor from Chicago, who teamed up with the Black Panther Party and its Chairman Fred Hampton throughout the 1960s — and fought the FBI at great personal cost — to bring healthcare to the most vulnerable Americans. Told through the eyes of his granddaughter, director Maya Cueva, the documentary explores Young’s story through animation, exclusive archival material, and new interviews with iconic voices, while drawing connections to the modern-day healthcare workers carrying on his legacy.
Supported by Netflix x Ghetto Film School Development Grant