Bat-Sheva Guez
Writer | Director
Bat-Sheva is an award-winning writer and director who weaves dance and magic into visually compelling, character-driven stories. Guez has written and directed over 20 short films and screened in 30+ festivals worldwide including the Hamptons International Film Fest, the Rhode Island Int’l Film Fest, & the Newport Beach Film Fest.
Accolades Include:
She was selected as The Gotham’s “SERIES CREATORS TO WATCH” 2024.
Finalist for the SCREENCRAFT SCREENWRITING FELLOWSHIP.
Awarded the JT3 ARTIST AWARD for Screenwriting & Directing,
Quarterfinalist for the SCREECRAFT PILOT COMPETITION.
Selected to NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM Screenwriting Lab
Awarded screenwriting residencies by the Lighthouse Film Festival
and a scholarship to the Nostros Screenwriting Retreat in Tuscany.
She directed and co-wrote the pilot episode of READING RAINBOW LIVE, bringing back the beloved tv show to a new generation of viewers. She has also directed a segment for SESAME STREET.
Her award-winning short film, IN THIS LIFE, was broadcast on ALL ARTS and PBS and has received press and accolades from NY Times, LA Review of Books, Forbes, and others. Awards include BEST MUSICAL at the Brooklyn Film Fest and BEST EXPERIMENTAL at the Oscar-qualifying Rhode Island Int’l Film Fest.
Her short film BEHIND THE WALL also won eight awards including the Panavision Grant for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the Oscar-qualifying Rhode Island Int’l Film Fest and BEST DIRECTOR at the Art of Brooklyn Film Fest. Dance Magazine called it: “The Genre-Defying Dance film you didn’t know you needed in your life.”
She is a co-producer on the feature documentary, BEING BEBE: THE BEBE ZAHARA BENET DOCUMENTARY, which premiered at the TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL and has received global distribution from OutTV, Fuse, and Peacock among others.
Guez was listed as one of “Nine Screendance Artists You Should Know About” by Dance Magazine. A graduate of Vassar College, she lives in New York directing branded content for clients like Lincoln Center, JP Morgan, Conde Nast, Pfizer, and others.
Lanie Zipoy,Producer
(1972-2022)
In Loving Memory
Lanie Zipoy was a light. She was the kindest and most giving person I have ever met. Her feature directorial debut THE SUBJECT, starring Jason Biggs and Aunjanue Ellis, won over 21 awards on the festival circuit, including Best Film at the Catalina Film Festival, Stony Brook Film Festival and the Lighthouse International film Festival.
Lanie’s producer credits include: APRIL FLOWERS (Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist); ALINA directed by legendary producer Ben Barenholtz;and the feature documentary DOG CAMP.
Her theater credits include Laura Marks’ BETHANY, starring America Ferrera (WP Theater, 2 Lortel Award nominations); Emmy-winner Ted Greenberg’s ACE (Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, Off-Broadway); and the Brooklyn premiere of CAROLINE, OR CHANGE.
Lanie was the co-founder and producing director of Voices Inside/Out, a playwriting exchange program at a Kentucky prison. Participating actors included Michael Shannon, Michael Chernus, Ashlie Atkinson, Teddy Sears, Ron Canada and more.
She produced PEN America’s Prison Justice Awards in 2020. With comedy group Recent Cutbacks, she produced the Audible Original, Master Lecture Series: History of the
3rd Robot War.
Lanie was a Time Warner Foundation Fellow of the 2012-2014 Lab at WP Theater, NYC. Her novel ME AND THE MOON was one of six finalists for The Write Stuff through MTV Books/Simon & Schuster.
She touched the lives of hundreds with her kindness and generosity of spirit. We miss her so much.
Emily Branham
Producer
Emily Branham is a filmmaker who specializes in unexpected, intimate, and deeply human films about artists. Her directorial debut, BEING BEBE, premiered at Tribeca Festival, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick, won Jury & Audience Awards on its festival tour across 5 continents, and received global distribution from Peacock & Fuse Media in the US as well as OUTtv, FrootTV, SVT and DR in territories worldwide.
The short documentary she made in 5 days, “Legend: a film about Greg Garing,” won the Jury Prize for Best Film of the International Doc Challenge at Hot Docs in Toronto, then screened at Sheffield Doc/ Fest, IDFA, Nashville, Big Sky, Rooftop Films, and on the Documentary Channel.
She directs docu-style short-form content for clients including JP Morgan, Lincoln Center, Atlantic Council, Martha Stewart Weddings, and AT&T, and has years of experience working with incredible creatives in high-pressure environments as a post-production and visual effects producer for clients including Mercedes, David Yurman, Adidas, Geico, Samsung, Apple, Google, Nike, Lexus, AT&T, Citibank, Subway, Budweiser, Verizon, Fiat, A&E, PBS, Nova, Paramount Pictures, The Roots, and Kanye West.
Originally from Minneapolis, Emily was a child actor who earned her SAG-AFTRA card at 5 years old, and grew up doing plays at the Guthrie Theater and Children’s Theater Company. She studied Radio/TV/Film on the directing track at Northwestern University and lives in New York City
Gina Bouchard
Producer
Gina Bouchard loves films that scratch under the surface to reveal hidden truths and other realities. She works as a freelance commercial producer for clients like Momentum Worldwide. Before that, she was the Director of Production for VICE and created content for the launch of VICE’S network, VICELAND. Gina has produced ground-breaking videos for dozens of major brands and partners.
Some notable projects and clients include: Electric (a documentary about electronic music shot in 5 different countries with accompanying events in each country), a Coke RED documentary on the Aids epidemic in Africa, Samsung’s Beyond the Frame (a series of VR projects and documentaries), and Bacardi’s Untamable Artists Series (a collection of content containing a documentary series, several music videos, and a series of house parties).
Gina has also worked as Production Manager at Hearst Digital Media for more than seven years, serving on projects for Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Lifetime, CoverGirl, and more.
She has produced several short films including The Vodou Healer which was invited to screen at SXSW in 2016. This is her second collaboration with Bat-Sheva Guez, producing her short film Behind the Wall which won the Grand Prize for Best Cinematography at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and screened at the Hamptons International Film Fest.
Lauren Elizabeth Harris
Producer
Lauren Elizabeth Harris is an award-winning actor, producer and founder of Pathway Pictures. She has portrayed numerous roles both on the stage and in film and television. She also wrote, produced and co-starred in a feminist web-series, It’s A Girl Thing, that was highly regarded in over 14 international film festivals. Her film Defining Dodo won the LGBTQ Voices Award at the HBO Sponsored Latino Film Festival.
Most recently, she directed a coming of age story, Friends Wanted, set in Quaker School, that she also wrote, acted and produced, starring Jodi Benson (The Little Mermaid).
She is currently in development on SXSW director Carol Brandt’s next feature, and received the Indian Paintbrush Grant for Cece Wheeler’s upcoming short film.
Her company has five other features and a series in development, three of which she wrote. v
She currently works in development at Steve Buscemi’s Olive Productions, and has worked for Voltage Pictures and Double Nickel. She is honored to be a board member of SheNYC, a member of Women in Film, associate member of WIP and former New York Events Leader for Film Fatales.
She holds a BA in Acting and Spanish from the University of Southern California, and is an MFA Candidate in Creative Producing in Film from Columbia University. As an actor, she has trained at The British American Dramatic Academy in London, England, The Berridge Conservatory in Normandy, France and The Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA. In Los Angeles, she has studied with Lesly Kahn, Margie Haber, Judy Kain, Annie Grindlay, Ivana Chubbuck Studios, and is currently in the Writer’s Lab of Groundlings.
Katrina Chamberlin
Art Consultant
Born in the Netherlands and raised in Turkey, Kat Chamberlin is a Brooklyn-based, multi-disciplinary artist and curator whose practice centers on fictions that fill vacuums of historic knowledge, such as legends, conspiracies or supernatural phenomena.
Her work has been exhibited across the U.S and internationally, and featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Chicago Cultural Center, Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery in Boston and Gana Art in New York City.
Kat completed her Masters in Fine Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, the Toby Devon Lewis Award and the William Dole Award. Kat is the creator and director of Common People, a gallery based in Brooklyn, NY.