Our Team

Director

After graduating Columbia University, Ginger Gentile lived in Argentina for 13 years where she ran San Telmo Productions, whose clients include Nat Geo, A&E, Warner Bros, and Al Gore’s Climate Challenge. Her feature directing credits include ERASING DAD (Borrando a Papá, 2014) and GOALS FOR GIRLS (Mujeres con Pelotas, 2014) which follows slum girls fighting to play a sport off limits to women in Argentina: soccer. ERASING FAMILY (2019) exposes the trauma children suffer when a loving parent is erased by the divorce courts. Gentile was named an Architect of Change by Maria Shriver and was a featured speaker at SXSW 2019 as well as numerous podcasts and TV shows. She is also a contributor to Forbes Women.

Producer

Veronica Nickel is currently a founding partner at Kashif Incubator, a nonprofit focused on artist development for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and disabled creators. Recently she led the documentary production company Cora Media, with the upcoming INHOSPITABLE. Her feature, the Netflix Original FIRST MATCH, premiered at SXSW in 2018 and won the Gamechanger and Audience Awards. Other recent credits include UNCORKED and A24’s Academy Award-winning feature MOONLIGHT. Nickel was chosen to take part in the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Summit, LAFF Fast Track Lab and Tribeca All Access Lab and has her MFA from Columbia University.

Editor

Xuan Vu is an award-winning documentary film editor whose core motivation is to amplify the voices of those who otherwise would not be heard. Her independent documentary work spans the globe and has won her several distinguished awards, including the 2020 Southeast Emmy award for “Outstanding Documentary” for WHILE I BREATH, I HOPE, a feature film on which she served as producer and principal editor. She has also worked extensively on network television series, including CNN’s THIS IS LIFE WITH LISA LING, Showtime’s DARK NET and PBS’s AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS WITH MARIA HINOJOSA.

Editor

Cheree Dillon is a documentary film editor based in New York City, far from her childhood spent in Kansas. She edited the Emmy-nominated feature film OFF AND RUNNING, co-edited the award-winning feature docs DEATH BY DESIGN, SURVIVING AMINA and MASSACRE RIVER. Her broadcast work includes editing THE HOMESTRETCH on PBS’s series Independent Lens, WNET’s special THE TALK: RACE IN AMERICA, and segments for THE TODAY SHOW. Cheree also edited the award-winning short films SISTER/STRANGER, AN IMAGINARY THING, COSMO, and SOUTHMOST USA. When not editing, Cheree volunteers in several community gardens including the West Harlem Garden Collective.

Director of Photography

Mariam Dwedar is an Emmy Award-winning Egyptian-Filipina cinematographer and filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York. She has contributed to Peabody Award- and Webby Award-winning projects, filmed on field productions around the world covering a wide range of topics, and her clients include an array of media from independent documentaries to news programs and television comedies. Recently, Mariam was recognized by DOCNYC, America's largest documentary festival, as one of '40 Under 40' rising stars in documentary filmmaking.

Associate Producer

Bianca Vargas spent the beginning of her career creating original local content for The CW South Florida where she earned an EMMY nomination for the sex and relationship talk show GET SOME! as well as a PromaxBDA Gold Award for the program promotional spot, GET FLASHED. She recently received her MFA degree from the University of Miami where she assistant directed nine short films as well as produced seven short films including VAL, a Knight Made in MIA Official Selection as part of the Miami International Film Festival.