Meet the Team
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Kimberly Bautista
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Kimberly Bautista is a Colombian-American award-winning writer, director, and producer. Her feature-length documentary film titled "Justice for My Sister" about femicide in Guatemala was broadcast on PBS Stations and TeleSUR. The film screened in 20 countries to audiences who also received training in violence prevention with the trauma-informed curriculum that Kimberly authored. Over 15,000 live audience members partook in the community screening and trainings, and over 100,000 people saw the film on television broadcast. As a result of community organizing and the film’s multi-year tour, she founded the arts nonprofit Justice for My Sister Collective to train youth to make films that transform trauma into healing, in order to promote racial equity and gender justice. Kimberly is a fierce champion of youth leadership, human rights, and the arts to promote healing and social change.
Kimberly obtained her Bachelors from Pitzer College and her MFA from University of California, Santa Cruz in Social Documentary.
Maaman Rezaee
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Maaman Rezaee is an Iranian-American filmmaker whose work focuses on issues of memory, belonging and transcultural dynamics. She writes and directs and has a background in education, talent management and nonprofit work. She works within experimental and narrative forms. Her films have screened in numerous national and international film festivals and have been exhibited at ICA LA, Anthology Film Archives and Another Gaze Journal, to name a few. Born and raised in Iran, Rezaee began her creative practice with studies in music and painting. She later attended Baha'i Institute of Higher Education, an underground university for Baha'is, a religious minority in Iran who are banned from entering state universities. After immigrating to the U.S, Rezaee received her MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and worked as an Assistant Professor at University of New Mexico. She’s currently based in Los Angeles.
Jahmil Eady
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Jahmil Eady is an award-winning writer, director, and producer who blends genre with social impact storytelling. Her work unpacks contemporary social issues and often features Black, POC, and LGBTQIA+ folks in fantastical environments. Jahmil grew up in Charleston, SC and NYC. She earned her BA in Media Studies from Pomona College and studied at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic. Jahmil holds an MFA in Directing from UCLA where she was the Inaugural Graduate Class Artist, representing over 14,000 Bruins for the class of 2023. She is also the Princess Grace Foundation's Inaugural Sir Roger Moore Honoree in Filmmaking. Before transitioning to narrative film and television, Jahmil was an Associate Producer on documentary projects for Oprah Winfrey Network, Viceland, and Discovery Networks. Her short films have screened at over 50 film festivals worldwide, including several Academy Award and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals. She has been supported by Film Independent, Plate Spinner Productions, New Filmmakers Los Angeles NewNarratives Program, and the Rhulen Family Foundation. Jahmil's other distinctions include the New York Times Award, The Jackie Robinson Foundation Award, and the Four Sisters Award bestowed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, Sara Finney Johnson, Mara Brock Akil, and Felicia D. Henderson.
Nancy Ramos
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Nancy Ramos (she/her/hers) is a Queer Chicana from San Bernardino, California. She graduated from CSUN in 2018 with a degree in Television Production. She's been working professionally as a Video Editor since 2012. She's edited projects for companies such as Sony, Netflix and PBS SoCal. She also teaches Video Production to middle school and high school students in San Diego County. She began her work with Justice for My Sister in 2019 after a chance encounter on a bus with founder, Kimberly Bautista who offered her a mentorship and career in non-profit, which has become the highlight of her career. In her free time, she enjoys reading, screenwriting, and hosting a Film Club.
Teaching Artists and Mentors.
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Eddie is a writer, editor, filmmaker, and producer who has worked to bring creative projects of all scales to life. His work ranges from producing HBO Max documentaries to spearheading globe-spanning viral campaigns to producing Apple Podcast featured shows. He is currently a Creative Producer for Field/House Productions. His work has premiered at the Doris Duke Theater in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi; has been commissioned by organizations including Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the Movement for Black Lives and others; and has been exhibited in art spaces including the Honolulu Museum of Art. Eddie seeks to highlight how delicate moments with ourselves and each other are world-changing and revolutionary.
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Mexican immigrant is a former graphic designer and home decorator turned Production Designer since 2010. Experience includes short and full length films, episodic content, music videos, commercials, media content, stage design and residential/industrial renovation makeovers. Work often revolves around under-represented communities and the important issues affecting their daily lives such as discrimination, racism, mental health issues, addiction and domestic violence. Community work includes classroom and on-set filmmaking mentorship programs with the "Youth Cinema Project '' by the Latino Film Institute and work as a teaching artist for Justice for my Sister for their summer program "Nuevas Novelas" and "To Foster Change" through PBS.
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Michael is a Black queer nerd and 90's R&B/Hip Hop connoisseur. A 2020 Film Independent: Episodic Lab Fellow where he was mentored by Netflix producer Pete Corona, John Agbaje (Bad Robot), and Christopher Yost (Thor: Ragnarok). He is an Afrofuturist, who writes to carve a space for those subtracted from mainstream consciousness. Michael’s produced plays include Kingdom (published through Steele Spring Stage Rights), PUNK, and Rocky Road. His play, Kingdom, earned a Best New Play Nomination for the 2018 Non-Equity Jeff Awards, and the Lorraine Hansberry award through Black Theatre Alliance. Michael graduated with a MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of The Arts, and is one of the Resident Playwrights of Broken Nose Theatre.
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Nanobah Becker (Diné) is an award-winning writer/director whose short films FLAT, CONVERSION, THE 6th WORLD, and LANDBACK, WATERBACK and video collaborations I LOST MY SHADOW and MY SOUL REMAINER have screened at festivals in the U.S. and internationally including the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and imagineNATIVE film + media arts festival and have been acquired by institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art. She recently shadowed on episodes of DARK WINDS (AMC) and BIG SKY (ABC) to learn more about TV directing and is currently in development on her first feature film. Nanobah is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and currently calls Tovaangar (Los Angeles) home.
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Sannii Crespina-Flores has been a teaching artist, advocate, and activist for youth and women for more than twenty years, but it is the space between pen and paper that she finds sanctuary. A member of the Writers Guild of America(East) Indie Caucus and founder of the Un-Inhibited Muse Film Festival, the global youth initiative Do Remember Me, and the art collaborative Yram Collective, she is committed to building community, sharing the art of storytelling, and bearing witness through archiving. Sannii has also served as Board Chair for the Bartol Foundation. She has been a recipient of the Arts Connect International Ripple Award, a 2-time recipient of the Leeway Art and Change Grant, a 2-time recipient of the Independence Public Media Foundation Award and the MoFilm/AT&T grant to create works for independent television and cultural organizations. She has recorded an audio book of poetry and written a book of short stories currently on Amazon Books. She has screened work at the 60th Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the grand prize for the short story challenge at the 15th Sundance Film Festivals and a Producer of the independent award winning films “Slow Burn” and “The Accomplices”. Her work has been published in 50 in 50: Letters to Our Daughters, Black Female Photographers, midnight & indigo, Root Journal and received the MVICW Author, Barbara Neely Fellowships and a member of the Justice for my Sister Sci-Fi Screenwriting Lab. She has also contributed to academic publications and created learning guides for TED-Ed, National Geographic, and the Hip Hop Education Center.
Interested in joining our team?
We are always looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help us expand our reach. Whether you’re supporting our programs, coordinating events, or amplifying our message, your work will contribute to a movement that uplifts underrepresented voices and transforms the industry.