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Jesenia Ruiz. Discipline: Writer. Program Year: Grants and Awards 2020, Project Involve 2020. Follow Us. Bio. Jesenia Ruiz is a half Mexican writer specializing in female-driven TV about complicated families and marginalized communities.
Jesenia Ruiz is known for Her Forgotten Daughter (2017), Instakiller (2018) and Blackout (2021). More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Resume. Add to list. Known for. Her Forgotten Daughter. 5.0. Writer. 2017. Instakiller. 4.8. Writer. 2018. Blackout. Short. Writer. 2021. Cyberchase. 6.9. TV Series. Writer. 2023 • 2 eps. Credits. Writer9.
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Vittoria Campaner
Born in Venice, Italy, Vittoria Campaner completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Integrated Design at Parsons The New School in New York before pursuing an MFA in Cinematography at UCLA. She is currently based in Los Angeles and has worked internationally in France, Italy, the Caribbean, Scandinavia, China and Taiwan, and her work has screened at international film festivals and art galleries. Her background in design informs a multidisciplinary approach to her craft and, when she is not working as...
Becky Baihui Chen
Becky Baihui Chen is an LA-based cinematographer from Guangzhou, China. She received her MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She shot a feature documentary in Europe, as well as numerous shorts with genres ranging from political drama to steampunk fantasy. One of the shorts, shot in Ecuador, Welcome Back, is nominated for the 2020 College Television Awards. She is also the first prize recipient of the 2019 Sun Cinematography Award, which is supported by the ASC.
Allen E. Ho
Allen E. Ho is a California-bred cinematographer and International Cinematographer’s Guild camera operator. He received his Bachelor in Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine and a MFA in Cinematography from the University of Texas, Austin. His recent work includes two seasons of Artificial, which was awarded a Primetime Emmy and Peabody Futures of Media Award in 2019. He was also selected as an American Society of Cinematographers Mentee and was paired with mentor and renowned cinematographer L...
Ruth Du
Ruth Du is a director and producer, originally from Portland, Oregon. She received a BFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Du produced indie feature The Archer, which premiered at SXSW in 2017. Her directorial credits include digital series Seeking and TV movie Your Baby Is Mine. Most recently, Du was the Executive Director of the AT&T Mentorship Program, working closely with Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani to produce five short films. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
Cris Gris
Cris Gris’ films have screened internationally in prestigious festivals, including La Semaine de la Critique, Festival de Cannes. She’s known for moving between acting, writing and directing. She landed her first leading role in the feature independent drama Fish Bones (2018). Gris’ music videos have been nominated by MTV Latin America for Video of the Year category. Her short San Miguel (2018) received the Spike Lee Film Production Fund, the HFPA Fellows Fund, and was named a 2019 NBR studen...
Andrew Reid
Andrew Reid was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2018. His thesis ASIA A won the Jury Award at the 2018 DGA Student Awards, was a semi-finalist at the 45th Student Academy Awards and has screened at HollyShorts, CAA, Paramount Pictures and over 40 other festivals. ASIA A is being developed into a feature and is a recipient of the 2019 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmmaker Fund. Recently, he finished the short Road to Zion, which is b...
Olutoye Adegboro
Toye Adegboro hails from Chicago, where he developed a love for film and television informed by the city’s robust comedy scene. He attended Brown University, studying Literary Arts and American Studies, with a focus on the narratives of immigrant communities. During this time, he co-headed publicity for the Ivy Film Festival and volunteered for the Stockholm International Film Festival. He’s since worked in the Scripted Television department of WME, servicing award-winning clients with credit...
Jennifer Gottesfeld
Jennifer Gottesfeld designs and implements social impact strategies for scripted narratives and documentaries at Participant Media. She has spent her career working to effect systemic change through government, non-profits, media and the private sector. Her experience spans designing the national Ebola survivor response in Sierra Leone with Partners In Health; developing strategic alignment within the corporate social responsibility department at Goldman Sachs; creating Global Health Corps’ l...
Greta Hagen-Richardson
Greta Hagen-Richardson is the Lead Features Programmer at the New Orleans Film Festival, working toward equity in representation and elevating the contributions of exciting, fresh voices. Hagen-Richardson has contributed to many organizations, including the Chicago International Film Festival, True/False Film Fest and Citizen Jane Film Festival. She responds strongly to American cinema that comments on changing dynamics in gender, race and class—particularly in horror, as well as films that c...
Brian Grigsby
Brian Grigsby is a Pittsburgh Pennsylvania-raised, Los Angeles-based producer who advocates for unique stories told in captivating ways. Being the second youngest of seven and the son of a preacher has given him a unique perspective on the world around him. He’s produced a variety of projects for the NFL, NBA, HBO, NBC and agencies across Los Angeles. He’s currently screening his short film, Russ and Dru, at film festivals across the United States and internationally. This fall, his team plan...
Takara Joseph
Takara Joseph, born in the Virgin Islands, bred in Atlanta, is a Daytime Emmy nominated producer of the 13-time nominated series, Giants. Her sophomore series, Unapologetically Black, is a dramedy chronicling a black woman’s experience in a white corporate world. She has also produced the shorts, other, Closure and Junebug. She recently signed on to produce her first feature film, On Time, based on the award-winning short by the same name. Her company, Silhouette Productions, is focused on te...
Tabatha Laanui
Tabatha Laanui is an LA-based producer from Oahu, Hawaii. After graduating from the School of Film & Television at Loyola Marymount University, she started her career working on music documentaries for television. Some of her credits include Death Row Chronicles for BET, Untold Stories of Hip Hop for WeTV and The Ridefor MTV. Laanui recently completed a documentary short about the life of Portos Bakery, founder Rosa Porto. The film garnered early support from local festivals and will be widel...
Mary Ann Anane
Mary Ann Anane was born in Ghana, raised in New Jersey. She is a graduate of Northwestern University where she studied playwriting and screenwriting. After graduating, Anane worked in theatre development at New York Theatre Workshop, an off-Broadway company, before moving to LA to work in film development at Endeavor Content. She was also the producer’s assistant on The Farewell and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. In 2018, Anane was selected as a finalist for MACRO’s Episodic Lab for her...
Agam Darshi
Agam Darshi is an award-winning actress and writer, born in England and raised in Canada. She is currently residing in Los Angeles. Darshi holds a BFA in Visual Arts and Theatre from the University of Calgary and has been a professional actress and filmmaker for over 16 years, working internationally and garnering numerous awards. She is currently developing her feature script, Indians in Cowtown, and recently starred in Deepa Mehta’s upcoming film Funny Boy.
Jeanette Lim
Jeanette Lim is a writer with roots in Singapore and Las Vegas, though she feels it important to clarify that she was never “crazy rich” or a casino resident. Rather, she spent much of her youth involved in theater as a technician, where her love for writing and performance first blossomed. Lim graduated from Stanford University and UCLA’s Professional Program in Television Writing, where she developed an original pilot, Neon Sisters—recently named a semifinalist in WeScreenplay’s Diverse Voi...
Gauri Adelkar
Gauri Adelkar is an Indian writer/director based in LA. She received her MFA in Screenwriting & Directing from Columbia University, where she was the 2018 recipient of the Breaking Barriers Award for Female Directors. Adelkar’s film The Little Goddesswas shortlisted for the 2019 BAFTA student film awards and won the Breaking Boundaries Prize at the Academy Qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival. Her work has screened globally at venues such as the Hamptons International Film Fes...
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Growing up a mixed-race tomboy raised by a poor single mother in the Midwest, Jesenia Ruiz knows what it’s like to be caught between cultures — white and Mexican, masculine and feminine, rich and poor, privilege and oppression — and wrestles with ideas of class, gender, diaspora, and identity in her work.
Jesenia Ruiz. Writer: Her Forgotten Daughter. Jesenia Ruiz is known for Her Forgotten Daughter (2017), Instakiller (2018) and Blackout (2021).
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