THE TEAM
JENNIFER HASKIN-O’REGGIO
PRODUCER, WRITER/DIRECTOR
A New Orleans native, Jennifer began her directing career in theater but is best known for her film/TV work as a writer/director/producer and cinema educator. Based in Los Angeles, she is an alum of USC’s Graduate School of Cinema and Television. Her directing work THE MIRROR LIED and BLUES for RED has garnered two Director’s Guild of America student awards, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Student Academy Award, the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Award, the Academy Gold Finalist among others and has screened films in over 20 festivals. She has also directed, written and produced for Sesame Street and has created video and photography content for Getty Images, Pond5, Interscope Records and Adobe Images.
ROGER REID
PRODUCER
A native Chicagoan, Roger Reid attended University of Oregon in Eugene, where he established himself as a local theater stalwart. Roger founded and directed a performing arts theater company under the auspices of the Metropolitan Arts Commission of Portland, OR. Relocating to Los Angeles, Roger won awards for August Wilson's MA RAINEY'S BLACKBOTTOM and also August Wilson's FENCES. Roger became a member of the Screen Actors/AFTRA Guild under direction of legendary Carl Reiner, Roger has worked numerous projects in collaboration with the late Richard Pryor (Indigo Productions); and extensively under contract with Eddie Murphy (Eddie Murphy Productions).
RACHEL PEARL
ASSISTANT PRODUCER/LEAD EDITOR
Award winning editor Rachel Ann Pearl earned a BS in Neurobiology from Cornell University before she came to her senses and moved to Boston, MA to attend Berklee College of Music. She forgot to leave. Pearl spent the next 15 years performing jazz, folk, and rock music and making short films before earning her MFA at the UCLA School of Film and Television. Rachel’s Pearl’s editing work spans narrative, multimedia and documentary genres. Her feature work includes the documentaries “Fema City” and “Change is Gonna Come”, a film about the Peace movement. Her most recent documentary, “Where She Lies” is available on Netflix. Her narrative features include “Courting Chaos” a romantic comedy with clowns and “Muslimah’s Guide to Marriage” an award winning Muslim American romantic comedy.
ANNMARIE MORAIS
CONSULTING PRODUCER
A Jamaican-Canadian screenwriter, AnnMarie is best known for writing the films Killjoys, How She Move and Haven and the upcoming TV series The Porter. She earned a BFA from York University in Film and Video in 1995. Morais won funding for two Vision TV Cultural Diversity Drama Competition movies: Hotel Babylon and Da Kink in My Hair, which aired on Vision in 2004 and 2005. Morais was also a writer and story editor on the television series adapted from the play, which aired on Global Television in 2007. Morais was the first Canadian to win the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.
TAWANNA BROWN
CO-WRITER
In addition to being a poet and screenwriter, Tawanna thrives in the non-profit sector as a grant writer and manager. Tawanna is particularly inspired by the cultural wisdom and metaphors embedded within the collective stories of communities.
LAURA PAK HONMA
CO-WRITER
A graduate of USC’s Film School, Laura has worked on various film, television and documentary projects in all aspects of production. A recipient of a Fox Fellowship Screenwriting Award, she has also written several screenplays of various genres commissioned by an independent production company. She is currently working on feature-length and series scripts, as well as finishing a Young Adult Novel. She hopes to continue to write and produce scripts that entertain but also highlight underrepresented voices.
CARMELLA JENKINS
CASTING DIRECTOR/ ASSISTANT PRODUCER
A graduate of Chapman University where she studied Theater and Performing Arts, Carmella has since moved into the film realm where she has assisted on numerous film productions from documentaries to fiction film and online media of all sorts. When she isn’t busy assisting on productions, she enjoys pursuing her love for acting, dance, and musical theater.
ALLIE SCHULTZ
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Allie is a cinematographer and Texas native based in Los Angeles. After working in the camera department on the Walking Dead, she attended the American Film Institute Conservatory and received a MFA in their globally recognized cinematography program. Her films have gone on to screen at major festivals, including SXSW, Tribeca, and Energa CAMERIMAGE. She is a 2022 International Cinematographers Guild Emerging Cinematographer Award recipient, which is the only award show in the industry that specifically celebrates the work of up-and-coming cinematographers.
JYVONNE HASKIN
ASSISTANT PRODUCER
Having honed her skills in operations and project management, Jyvonne brings an expert eye to production logistics. From managing all aspects of a project from inception to proposal, production, quality assurance and delivery, or estimating and preparing budgets, schedules, flowcharts and additional documentation for clients, teams and third-party vendors, or creatively solving technical, graphic and scheduling issues, Jyvonne interfaces with clients to efficiently and accurately develop desired product outcomes. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Indiana University – Purdue in New Media Arts and Sciences.