TEAM
JESSIE BARR - Director / Writer / Producer
Jessie Barr is a writer/director and Sundance Fellow based in Los Angeles. Sophie Jones, her critically acclaimed, award-winning debut feature premiered in competition at the 2020 Deauville Film Festival. She won Best Director at the 2022 Lost Weekend Film Festival (Alamo Drafthouse, Winchester). The film won Best Feature Film (NEXT Section) at the Americana Film Festival 2022 (Barcelona, Spain), screened in competition at Mar del Plata 2020, and was acquired and released by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2021. The film holds a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes and is now streaming on Showtime. It is executive produced by Nicole Holofcener.
Jessie was a 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow. The series she co-created went on to be developed with Warner Brothers Television and Tall Baby Productions. As a writer/director and actor, her work has been lauded at film festivals around the world, including Tribeca and Berlinale. She can be seen next co-starring in The Beta Test (IFC Films).
She is a PEN America Writer’s Grant Recipient (2020), and Oregon Made Film Grant Recipient (2019). She’s been featured by Variety, the National Board of Review, and TalkHouse. Jessie is a speaker and a teacher, offering coaching in acting and screenwriting. She writes about cinema and culture weekly via her substack, Give Me More.
JESSICA BARR - Writer / Producer/ “Sophie”
Jessica Barr is a filmmaker from Portland, Oregon. She is currently producing the short film Julia, which was the recipient of the 2020 Oregon Made "Tell Your Story” grant and the Bend Film Festival's 2021 BIPOC Women's Film Production Grant. She just wrapped acting in the Portland independent feature film Can't Seem To Make You Mine, alongside Lindsay Burdge - which she will continue to produce. Her first short film, That Piece Of You, premiered at the 2021 NW Film Forum Local Sighting's Festival in Seattle. Her short A Mitzvah was recently supported by The Future Of Film is Female.
LINDSAY GUERRERO - Producer
Lindsay Guerrero is a producer based in Santa Barbara, CA. Her work over the past decade stems from working directly with influential creative leaders in film and advertising. From Emmy-winning impactful environmental media, to creative management for an iconic actor to operations management for the CEO of her female-founded creative agency. Noteworthy documentaries such as Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Chasing Ice, Netflix’s Chasing Coral, Jeff Lowe’s Metanoia, and Dear Gov. Hickenlooper to working with Orlando Bloom on Pirates of the Caribbean, Unlocked, Romans, Smart Chase, HBO’s Tour De Pharmacy, Netflix’s Easy, Amazon’s Carnival Row. She has a documentary in production, Fasting: The Healer Within and Sophie Jones will be the first picture from her production company, The Sounding Board.
JOE DINNEN - Producer
Joe Dinnen is a New York-based producer whose credits include Sophie Jones, Inez & Doug & Kira, Om City: The Series, The Pastor, and more. In addition to narrative content, he has led production on ad campaigns for clients including CNN, Bud Light, and SC Johnson which have garnered millions of views and global attention. When Joe is not producing, he develops creative and production strategies with independent filmmakers and brands as a consultant and supervises post-production on television shows including Showtime’s Billions and Apple TV+'s hit original series, Dickinson. His latest project will be co-producing the newly announced Amazon series, Outer Range, alongside Plan B Entertainment starring Josh Brolin.
Nicole Holofcener - Executive Producer
Nicole Holofcener is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She has directed six feature films, including Walking and Talking, Friends with Money, and Enough Said, as well as various television series. Holofcener received a 2019 Academy Award nomination for Adapted Screenplay and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Scott Miller - Director of Photography
Scott Miller is a Director of Photography based in New York City. Scott has worked as both a DOP and gaffer in film and television for over twenty years. Some of his credits include Ordinary World, Manhattan Romance, OM CITY, Boys Don't Cry, Madame Secretary, Gotti, All the Real Girls.
NAOMI SUNRISE FILORAMO - Editor
Naomi Sunrise Filoramo is an Emmy-nominated film and television editor based in Los Angeles. Growing up in a small town in Massachusetts, movies provided Naomi an exciting window to the wider world, though it never occurred to her she might one day make them herself. A twist of fate and fortuitous course scheduling led her to discover a passion for editing as an undergraduate at Mt. Holyoke College and she continued on to receive an MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute. As a filmmaker, Naomi relishes the power that storytelling has to connect with people of all backgrounds and illuminate our shared humanity. She seeks opportunities to work with great people to tell meaningful stories. In addition to Sophie Jones, her feature film and television credits include HBO’s Mare of Eastown, One Night in Miami, Fury, STARZ' American Gods, Conception, White House Down, HBO's Looking, SMILF, The Bold Type, T@gged, The Engagement Clause, and American Odyssey.
MARY WULIGER - Costume Designer
Mary Wuliger is a costume designer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School, Mary has worked in NYC and LA as a costume designer and set costumer in film, television, commercials, and music videos for over a decade. Recent design credits include Snatchers (SXSW 2019), Too Long at the Fair (Short of the Week 2019), Crossing Fences, Unremarkable, In Pursuit, and Movies in Space.
NATE HELLER - Composer
The path to becoming a composer for film scores is not standard by any means, and Nate Heller has had an interesting journey. His early days were spent touring nationally with his band Wendy Darling, whose success allowed him to carve out a career in the film music world. His first feature film score accompanied the critically acclaimed, Sundance and Berlin winning The Diary Of A Teenage Girl. He followed with two Academy-nominated films Can You Ever Forgive Me and A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, becoming a recipient of a 2019 BMI Award for his original score for the latter film, as well as receiving a Grammy nomination for the accompanying soundtrack compilation.
THE CRYSTAL CREATIVE - Music Supervision