The Filmmakers

JENNIFER TIEXIERA – DIRECTOR

Jennifer is an award winning documentary director, producer and editor who most recently helmed the Emmy-nominated series, “Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo” for HBO and the feature length documentary, “Subject,” which made its debut at the 2022 TriBeCa Film Festival. In 2020, she completed “P.S. Burn this Letter Please,” which debuted at the 2021 TriBeCa Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature at the 2020 OutFest Film Festival.

Previously, she edited “17 Blocks,” which was awarded Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film at the 2019 TriBeCa Film Festival, and other highlights include editing and producing the documentaries, “A Suitable Girl,” winner of the Albert Maysles Award at the TriBeCa Film Festival and “Waiting for Hassana,” official selection of the Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto Film Festivals.

Other career highlights include editing the documentary “Salam Neighbor” and the 2011 SXSW Documentary Grand Jury Winner, “Dragonslayer.

Guy Mossman – CO-DIRECTOR / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Guy is an American cinematographer and director who made his first short film in 2000 in Paraguay. In 2002, he was awarded a prestigious Park Fellowship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to pursue an M.A. in Journalism and Documentary Filmmaking. Since then, Guy has dedicated himself to lensing documentary films, non-fiction television and commercials. His love of character and vérité storytelling, and an eye for light and composition, has been acknowledged by critics and directors alike.

Guy is best known for his dramatic photography on the Oscar short-listed documentary f ilm, Buck, which also won the Audience Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Mariachi High, Bending The Arc, the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award-winning Feels Good Man, and Discovery Doc’s The Lost Lincoln — EP’ed by Mark Wahlberg.

In 2022, Guy co-directed the critically acclaimed documentary The Human Trial with his wife, Lisa Hepner. His camera work on Buck was singled out in the Los Angeles Times for being ‘both beautiful and evocative’; and the LA Times TV critic Robert Lloyd said of 4 Los Jets, ‘he gives every element its due; the clamor, the quiet, the details of décor and decoration, the richness of the landscape, the look of air under floodlights.

PAMELA GRINER - PRODUCER

Pamela has produced features and documentary films, both studio and independent, as well as short films, commercials, and music videos. Recent endeavors include several short documentaries for global non-profits in Malawi, India, Uganda, and Japan. She has a particular interest in projects – both narrative and non-fiction – that take on issues impacting our collective human experience.

Previous work also includes producing at Experimental Design, a world-building company that creates speculative futures across media platforms. One notable project was a video game and virtual reality experience designed for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Entitled Future World Vision, it is a deeply researched educational exploration tool that envisions future cities. The program is now being used in university classrooms to train the next generation of civil engineers and urban planners.

Along with her husband and brother-in-law, Pamela developed and directed a film festival in Baja Sur, Mexico, that focused solely on Mexican films. This one-time passion project – Cinéxico – was hosted in the village of Loreto (where there are no movie theaters!) and was a resounding success for the town and its residents.

Pamela holds a Journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.A. in Media Studies, where her thesis focused on politics and representation in the media.

JOSH GAD – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Is an acclaimed American actor, singer, and comedian, best known for voicing the beloved snowman Olaf in Disney’s Frozen franchise, originating the role of Elder Arnold Cunningham in Broadway’s The Book of Mormon, and portraying LeFou in the live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.

Gad will next be seen in A Tree Fell in the Woods, starring opposite Alexandra Daddario and Daveed Diggs. The film is slated to premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. He recently completed filming Alex Winter’s Adulthood, in which he stars alongside Kaya Scodelario.

Currently, Gad is in pre-production on both the sequel to Spaceballs for Amazon MGM Studios, which he is producing with comedy legend Mel Brooks, and New Line’s Chris Farley biopic, which he will direct with Lorne Michaels producing.

In Fall 2023, he returned to the Broadway stage in Anthony King and Scott Brown’s Gutenberg! The Musical!, opposite Andrew Rannells.

His performance as Olaf earned him two Annie Awards, while The Book of Mormon garnered him a Grammy Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. On screen, Gad has appeared in a wide range of films including Murder on the Orient Express, The Wedding Ringer, and the critically praised Marshall. Additional film credits include Little Monsters, The Angry Birds Movie, Frozen II, The Internship, and Love & Other Drugs.

On television, Gad played a fictionalized version of himself opposite Billy Crystal in FX’s The Comedians, and starred in Armando Iannucci’s HBO series Avenue 5. He is also the co-creator and star of Apple TV+’s hit animated series Central Park, created with Bob’s Burgers‘ Loren Bouchard. Other TV appearances include Peacock’s Wolf Like Me, as well as roles in New Girl, Modern Family, and 1600 Penn.

In 2024, Gad published his children’s book PictureFace Lizzy, illustrated by Marta Kissi. His memoir, In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some, was released in 2025 through Gallery Books.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gad created and hosted the YouTube series Reunited Apart, which brought together the casts of iconic films such as Back to the Future and The Lord of the Rings via virtual reunions. The series raised awareness and support for nonprofit organizations including Dig Deep, Project Hope, and No Kid Hungry.

SIMON KILMURRY – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Simon is a documentary producer and executive producer. He has received a Prime-Time Emmy Award, 17 News & Doc Emmys, and eight Peabody Awards. He is a governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Producers Guild of America, and the Television Academy. He served on the board of jurors of the Peabody Awards 2016-22. He is a board member of Jewish Story Partners and an advisor to The Redford Center.

Current productions include: Producer – “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy” by Nancy Buirski (Venice International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival 2022); “Finding Seyoum” by Vanessa Tshaye and William Martin; Executive Producer – “My Name is Andrea” by Pratibha Parmar (Tribeca 2022), “El Equipo” by Bernardo Ruiz (PBS 2023); “ADA – My Mother the Architect” by Yael Melamede (2025); and Consulting Producer – “Creede USA” by Kahane Cooperman (2025) and “The Human Trial” by Lisa Hepner and Guy Mossman.

From 2007-15 he was the executive producer of “POV”, the PBS showcase of independent documentaries and co-founded the WORLD Channel documentary series “America ReFramed.

LISA HEPNER – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Lisa is a Canadian-American writer and documentary filmmaker. For the past 30 years, she has produced non-fiction film and TV in Toronto, New York and LA. Working alongside directors Michael Apted, Jonathan Demme and Lisa F. Jackson, she has produced documentaries for the CBC, PBS, HBO, A&E, MTV and Sony Pictures Classics.

Career highlights include producing and co-directing the doc feature, “Women on the Frontlines,” that premiered at the UN and aired on PBS in 2004; premiering Jonathan Demme’s “Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains” at TIFF in 2007; and directing “The Human Trial” with her husband Guy Mossman. The film – featured in the New York Times, NPR and Forbes – has sparked a vital conversation on how to support faster cures. It was nominated for a Humanitas Prize in 2022.

Lisa teaches scripted and documentary production at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and is a member of the PGA, the WGA, and Roco Voices, a speaker’s platform for documentary filmmakers.

HALLEE ADELMAN – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Hallee is a writer, filmmaker, and co-founder of World of HA Productions. She served as executive producer on the Emmy-winning documentaries “The Social Dilemma” and “Art & Krimes by Krimes,” Oscar-nominated “Writing With Fire,” and 2024 Sundance Festival 5 Favorite “Daughters.” Hallee directed and produced “Our American Family,” a documentary about one family’s fight against generational addiction amidst the opioid crisis. The film was selected for Deadline’s “For the Love of Docs” screening series by National Geographic. She recently completed a term as a Board member of the International Documentary Association.

Hallee also authors the Great Big Feelings children’s book series, with titles like Way Past Mad, Way Past Worried, and Kirkus-starred Way Past Jealous. She serves various organizations and schools in Philadelphia, where she resides with her husband, daughters, and dogs.

ABBY ELLIN – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Abby is an award-winning journalist, podcast host and Emmy-nominated documentary film producer. A former NY Times business columnist, she is the author, most recently, of “Duped: Double Lives, False Identities and the Con Man I Almost Married.” “Duped” was turned into the podcast, “Impostors: The Commander,” which hit number one on Spotify. She is a producer, writer and reporter on the Apple Original podcast “Big Time,” hosted by Steve Buscemi; an executive producer on the 2025 documentary SPEAK., (an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival,) and a producer on the NY Times Presents film “To Live and Die in Alabama,” which aired on Hulu/FX. Her book, “Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight, and How Parents Can (and can’t ) Help” was short-listed for the Books for a Better Life Award in 2006.

Ellin is the winner of Arlene Award for her New York Times piece “When the Fine Print Applies to You,” on Lasik regret, and the Sword of Hope Award from the American Cancer Society for her piece “Confronting Cancer” in the Boston Tab. Her work has been published in a range of publications, including CNN, ABC News, Time, New York, The Village Voice, Marie Claire, Glamour and the now-defunct Mademoiselle. For five years she wrote the “Preludes” column about young people and money in the Business section of the Sunday New York Times. She is also a regular contributor to the Style and Health sections of the New York Times, and has appeared on TV and radio programs nationwide, including Today, GMA, and CBS Morning News.

Ellin received her BS in Communications from Ithaca College (with a minor in theater and writing), an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, and a Master’s in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University. But her greatest claim to fame is summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro (with a broken wrist!) and naming “Karamel Sutra” ice cream for Ben and Jerry’s.