DIRECTORS

25 year Hollywood veteran, award-winning film director, writer, producer. Outfest Filmmaker Alumni A. Rosser Goodman is an award-winning director. Her work streams on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple TV+, Sundance TV and PBS. Rosser was a finalist for the prestigious Directors' Program at ABC/Disney. She wrote and directed Pea Pod for the HBO Insider Comedy Challenge and placed in the top 5. Her suspense thriller, [in]visible, won the Best Filmmaker Award in the Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge. Rosser's first feature film premiered at OUTFEST where Rosser was named one of the Five in Focus directors. The LA Times described Rosser's work as "suspenseful and involving." Variety said she "delivers a polished product." Rosser was named one of 50 Women to Change Hollywood. She is a member of The Producers Guild of America, Alliance of Women Directors, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Green Light Women and of course, Film Fatales! Her humanitarian efforts include serving on the Advisory Board for NAMIC of Southern California. She earned "Board Member of the Year" at Diamond in the Raw, a non-profit assisting at-risk girls in South Los Angeles. Rosser also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Millennia Scope Entertainment Foundation which eradicates homophobia through all media.

A. Sayeeda Moreno is a director, screenwriter, and proud native New Yorker. Her films are character driven, utilizing genre, infused with black and brown bodies of the diaspora, specifically those who are Latinx, illuminating our (human) experiences; how we survive, what is in opposition to us, what our mind grapples with, and how we love. Sayeeda’s critically acclaimed, Futurestates.tv/PBS short, White, simultaneously premiered at SXSW and online at Futuresates.tv. White went on to screen at Tribeca Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, MOCADA Museum, among other venues and internationally. The feature-length script White won the San Francisco Film Society Hearst Screenwriting Award and was a 2018 Athena List winner. Sayeeda earned her MFA in Film from NYU where she was a dean’s fellow. She is a Film Independent and Sundance Women in Finance Fellow. Sayeeda was selected to be a participant in both the AT&T/Tribeca Untold Stories Pitch Competition and Tribeca All Access in 2017. Sayeeda is developing Out in the Dunes and White, among other projects. Her current short, toy/tag/ break is included in Bushwick Beats, an anthology feature of short films by six directors, produced by Circle of Confusion. Sayeeda is an Assistant Professor in Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College.

Film & TV Director, Writer, Producer (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 🎬 Los Angeles, USA 25 year Hollywood veteran, award-winning film director, writer, producer. Happy Place: On Set Outfest Filmmaker Alumni A. Rosser Goodman is an award-winning director. Her work streams on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple TV+, Sundance TV and PBS. Rosser was a finalist for the prestigious Directors' Program at ABC/Disney. She wrote and directed Pea Pod for the HBO Insider Comedy Challenge and placed in the top 5. Her suspense thriller, [in]visible, won the Best Filmmaker Award in the Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge. Rosser's first feature film premiered at OUTFEST where Rosser was named one of the Five in Focus directors. The LA Times described Rosser's work as "suspenseful and involving." Variety said she "delivers a polished product." Rosser was named one of 50 Women to Change Hollywood. She is a member of The Producers Guild of America, Alliance of Women Directors, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Green Light Women and of course, Film Fatales! Her humanitarian efforts include serving on the Advisory Board for NAMIC of Southern California. She earned "Board Member of the Year" at Diamond in the Raw, a non-profit assisting at-risk girls in South Los Angeles. Rosser also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Millennia Scope Entertainment Foundation which eradicates homophobia through all media.

Abby Berendt Lavoi is an award-winning Director, Producer, Writer, mother, cancer survivor, and joyful ball of sarcasm. She is currently Showrunner, and Executive Producer of My Amazing Cheap Date: New Orleans, and Fantasy Homes: New Orleans. She has received honors and awards from the New York Television Festival, the Telly Awards, New Orleans Film Festival, PromaxBDA, Broadcast Education Association, 48 Hour Film Festival, Colorado State Alumni Association, Oxford Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival, among many others. She is a member of Free the Bid / Free the Work, Women in Film & Television (WiFT) and Cinefemme. She has worked with various media companies, which have spanned the industries of TV, Film, Internet, Publishing, Radio, and Music. Her television & staff credits include MTV, MTV2, mtvU, TV Land, Nick@Nite, and Current TV. Since 2008, she has successfully run Lavoi Creative, LLC (TeamJADED Productions), a full service creative agency and production studio. She has created video work for Google, YouTube (Corporate) Pandora Internet Radio, Netflix, Autodesk, Squarespace, MindBodyGreen, Vox, MindBodyGreen, Bank of America, SFMOMA, YouTube, TuneIn Radio, Discovery Channel, Google Play, COMPLEX, Marriott, Mastercard, as well as many other companies and various political campaigns. She created and produced the web series "It’s a Rough Life", which was a finalist for the 2014 New York Television Festival’s History Unscripted Development Pipeline. Her film, Always There won Best Film and Best Actress at the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Festival in 2012. She produced and edited the feature length film, Rolled, which won Best Editing at Mockfest in 2012. She produced the award winning short film, Rougarou, directed by Lorraine Caffery. Her doc short “Feufollet: Roots of Fire” from the larger documentary project “Roots of Fire” was a finalist in the Berlin Flash Film Festival in 2017. In 2020, another short doc from the Roots of Fire

Abby Ellis is a Peabody and Emmy nominated Director. Her film, FLINT’S DEADLY WATER, was a multi-year investigation that exposed a steep number of unknown deaths from a deadly disease outbreak during the Flint water crisis, the negligence of officials who allowed it to continue and the efforts to obstruct the legal and scientific investigations around it. In 2020 she was the Hollyhock Filmmaker-in-Residence at PBS, where she wrote, directed and produced SHOTS FIRED, an unflinching look at the connection between the high rate of police shootings in Utah and the state’s controversial police training methods. Prior to that Abby produced AMERICA DIVIDED, an original docu-series executive produced by Norman Lear and Shonda Rhimes, which featured narratives around inequality in America woven into an eight-story, five-part series. Abby’s work has earned her a Peabody Award, several Emmy nominations, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Scripps Howard Award, an Izzy Award, Sentinel Award, Acting for Justice Award, two Livingston nominations, and other honors. At the start of her career Abby spent six years at VICE where she produced and edited on some of the network’s most pivotal and award-winning shows, from character-driven social and cultural documentaries to current affairs films.

Abby Ginzberg, is a Peabody award-winning director who has been producing award-winning documentaries about race and social justice for the past 30 years. She is the co-producer and co-director of Agents of Change, which premiered at the 2016 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and won the Jury and the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary. Her feature award-winning documentary, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (2014) won a Peabody award and has screened at film festivals around the world and won four audience awards for Best Documentary and a segment was broadcast on Independent Lens in April, 2016. Her work as a documentary filmmaker took her to the Academy Awards in 2012 with a short documentary film, The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, for which she was the Consulting Producer. The Barber premiered at Sundance in 2011 and won numerous awards for Best Short Documentary at film festivals across the US, was broadcast on POV and won a DuPont award. Abby’s documentaries, Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey and Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice (about an African American and Latino judge) have aired on public television and been screened at film festivals across the United States and abroad and won numerous awards, including a Silver Gavel and CINE Golden Eagle for Soul of Justice. Abby is currently in production on two films: Tipping Point, which documents the challenges restaurant servers face when making only $2.13 per hour as the federal minimum wage for tipped workers and Then They Came for the Japanese about the incarceration of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II.

Abi Damaris Corbin is a Boston-bred writer and director based in Los Angeles. Corbin's BAFTA shortlisted live-action short “The Suitcase” had its world premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and screened worldwide as an official selection at over 50 festivals.

Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental media and writing since the 1980s, having completed more than fifty film/video works and installations, and written 6 books. An acknowledged pioneer in montage, Child addresses the interplay between sound and image, to make, in the words of LA Weekly: “brilliant exciting work…a vibrant political filmmaking that’s attentive to form.” Her films, compulsive visual and aural legerdemain, have been widely awarded and shown internationally. Her major projects include Is This What You Were Born For?: a 9 year, 7-part work; B/Side: a film that negotiates the politics of internal colonialism; 8 Million: a collaboration with avant-percussionist Ikue Mori that re defines "music video"; The Suburban Trilogy: a modular digi-film that prismatically examines a politics of place and identity; and MirrorWorlds: a multiscreen installation that incorporates parts of Child's "Subtitled" series to explore narrative excess. Her most recent is a trilogy of feature films, including UNBOUND, an imaginary 'home movie' of the life of Mary Shelley, teenage author of Frankenstein; ACTS & INTERMISSIONS: on the life of anarchist Emma Goldman in America; and the last, ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES which explores human-machine interactions in the 21st century. Winner of the Rome Prize, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, the Stan Brakhage Award, as well as participating in two Whitney Biennials, (1989 and 1997) Child has had numerous retrospectives worldwide. These include Buena Vista Center in SF, Anthology Film Archive (in conjunction with The New Museum, NY), Harvard Cinematheque, Reservoir, Switzerland, EXIS Korea, the Cinoteca in Rome and Image Forum in Tokyo. Her work has been exhibited at the MoMA NY, the Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofia, and in numerous international film festivals, including NY, Rotterdam, Locarno and London. Harvard University Cinematheque has created an Abigail

Abigail Fuller is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose work includes four seasons on the Emmy-nominated series Chef’s Table, Dear Oprah for Apple TV+, and the feature documentary Do You Dream in Color? She is a member of the D&AD Impact Council that seeks to honor projects that accelerate postive change, and directs commercial content for various clients, represented by NonFiction Unlimited. Recently she was the recipient of The Move Mountains Filmmaker Grant presented by The North Face. Her work has twice premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Telluride’s MountainFilm, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to name a few. Abby is dedicated to telling deeply human stories that allow for empathy and sharing new perspectives.

Abigail is a writer and director who loves dark comedy. Her debut feature film BLOW UP MY LIFE, a whistleblower comedy-thriller starring Jason Selvig and Kara Young and co- written/directed with Ryan Dickie, premiered at Austin Film Festival in 2022. Her previous short films have played at SXSW, Fantastic Fest, LA Film Festival, Cleveland International, Woodstock Film Festival, and received multiple Vimeo Staff Picks. Accolades for her directing work include "25 New Faces of Independent Film” from Filmmaker Magazine, shortlist for the D&AD Next Director Award, a 2018 Webby Award Nomination, UKMVA Nominations, and 2 Gold Cannes Young Director Awards. Her commercial work is known for off-beat visual comedy and fantastic performances, for clients like Spotify, NBCUniversal, Audible, Skittles, and General Mills. Abigail is in development on her next feature film GESTURES, a dark comedy about women in private equity. She studied film at Wesleyan University, loves to speak Spanish, play charades, and is a member of the National Board of Review. Party time excellent.

My vision for Nailed It changed over the course of production. What I didn’t expect was the effect exploring the history of the Vietnamese salon would have on me. As a mixed race, second generation Vietnamese-American woman, there was always a disconnect from my culture, which I inadvertently found a place within by documenting the definitive history of the Vietnamese nail salon. Although politically it feels like America is more fractured by identity than ever before, it’s also never been so culturally and genetically mixed. This new demographic is hungry for thoughtful, humorous articulation of diverse communities, and where these underrepresented groups intersect. I consider this transcultural space to be the hallmark of my growing body of work—including this documentary about Vietnamese in America via nail salons, and their impact.

I am a highly experienced filmmaker with a wealth of knowledge in concept writing, directing, producing and film editing. With a passion for storytelling and a keen eye for detail, I bring a unique perspective and creative vision to every project I work on. Whether it's bringing a script to life on the big screen or fine-tuning the final cut, I am dedicated to creating captivating and impactful content that resonates with audiences.