#Happy bones movie series

Lila received a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University and an MA in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University. Her work is influenced by her background in music, cultural anthropology, and dance. Lila believes that intimate, personal stories can convey powerful, universal themes and that documentaries can be as cinematic and emotionally compelling as fiction. Lila got her start working in the editing rooms of Woody Allen and Spike Lee, working on such films as Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending and 25th Hour. Her editing credits include the Oscar shortlisted 116 Cameras The Undocumented Lawyer, which premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on HBO Harley which also premiered at Tribeca in 2020 and the Cinema Eye Honors award-winning Minka, which was nominated for an International Documentary Association award, among many others. Occupation: Dreamland, a cinema verité portrait of American infantrymen serving in Fallujah, Iraq, (directors: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds) which was released theatrically in 2005, won the 2006 Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction award and aired on the Sundance Channel in 2006 Pack, Strap, Swallow (director: Holly Paige Joyner) which aired on the Sundance Channel in 2006 The Perfect Life, (director: Sam Lee) which had its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2006.

#Happy bones movie series

The 2009 Emmy nominated, Hard Road Home, (director: Macky Alston) which had its broadcast premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens in Feb. Recent projects include: Flat Daddy (directors: Betsy Nagler & Nara Garber). The company has produced more than 15 nationally broadcast documentaries exploring a wide range of topics. GreenHouse Pictures is a New York/Northern California-based documentary production company dedicated telling diverse stories from a variety of perspectives that enlighten, educate and entertain. Selina co-founded GreenHouse Pictures with Producer Nancy Roth in 2003. Jessica is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, The International Documentary Association, Catapult Film Fund, Packard Family Foundation, and the Novo Foundation, among others. Additionally, she is producing VIVIEN’S WILD RIDE, a documentary memoir that follows a visual artist as she loses her sight (directed by Vivien Hillgrove), and an UNTITLED documentary feature (directed by Jon Shenk and co-directed by Bonni Cohen) for Actual Films/Participant Media. With Duane de la Vega, Anthony produced and co-directed IN THE BONES, a film that takes a cinematic journey through Mississippi providing a poetic and sometimes painful portrait of American culture. She was a producer on the acclaimed narrative feature AYITI MON AMOUR, directed by Guetty Felin which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016 and was shortlisted for an Oscar. As part of this effort she directed and produced the short film SUPREME COURT VS. In 2016, Anthony partnered with Duane de la Vega, to produce and direct Project Turnout, creating media partnerships with Mother Jones, The Nation and the New York Times.

In 2015 she produced the award winning film THE MASK YOU LIVE IN (Sundance 2015, Netflix), which has screened worldwide and has a companion education curriculum that is in all 50 states.

Beginning her career in the commercial world, she produced award winning content for Universal, MTV, Disney, Nickelodeon, BBC, and Comedy Central. Jessica has over two decades of experience in live action, animation and visual effects. She has served on multiple documentary juries including the Spirit Awards and is a member of the Academy - Doc Branch. She has guest lectured at various universities and taught a documentary forms course at UC Berkeley. She also directed and produced a multimedia PROJECT TURNOUT partnering with the New York Times, Mother Jones and The Nation to explore changing election laws and their impact on people of color. She has produced short-format work for The New York Times, Mother Jones, IFC and Discovery, among others. Her film BETTER THIS WORLD won Best Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International, received an IDA Creative Achievement Award and was selected to screen at NY MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight. Her work has received the WGA’s Best Documentary Screenplay Award, Gotham Independent Film’s Best Documentary Award and multiple national Emmy nominations. THE RETURN, a Peabody Award Finalist, won the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary, opened POV’s season, was nominated for a national Emmy, screened on Capitol Hill and in prisons across the country.

THE TWO KILLINGS OF SAM COOKE, a Netflix Original, was nominated for a 2020 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. Kelly’s award-winning documentaries have screened at film festivals worldwide, opened theatrically and broadcast nationally on PBS and Netflix.