Leche
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TFI Network 2018
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Nina is a ten-year old Dominican American girl who believes she can perform miracles after resurrecting an albino deer. She discovers that what sets her apart may be more of a blessing than a curse in this magical realism coming-of-age story.
Gabriella Moses
Director, Screenwriter
Gabriella Moses is an award-winning director, writer, and production designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her latest short films STICKY FINGERS and LECHE are currently playing the festival circuit. Her award-winning thesis film LAS MAÑANITAS has played at numerous international film festivals winning Best Ensemble Cast, Production Design and Score at NYU's First Run Film Festival and Best Film at the Katra Film Fest Series. Her production design work has been featured across top film festivals across the globe including Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca and SXSW.
Gabriella was selected by the Hispanic Coalition of NY as one of their 2015 Rising Latino Stars. She also served as a Shadow Director for the 2015 ABC Diversity Showcase. Gabriella is currently developing her directorial debut feature, LECHE, which has received support from 2016 Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Lab, the 2017 NYWIFT "From Script to Pre-Production" Workshop and the 2018 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive. Principal photography is scheduled for summer 2018. She believes in sharing stories with underrepresented protagonists that test viewer’s perceptions of identity and their imaginations.
Marttise Hill
Producer
Julius and Marttise are award-winning filmmakers and the co-founders of Pryor Hill Productions, a film & digital production company that focuses on creating compelling content by filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds. They are Sundance Institute Creative Producing alumni.
Shruti Ganguly
Producer
Shruti Ganguly is a filmmaker and the founder of Honto 88. Prior to Fictionless, Shruti has run video departments and developed the video strategy at various media companies from MTV to Conde Nast/Vogue, to being the VP of TV & Video at NYLON and been a co-founder at Fictionless. Shruti has worked with James Franco for the last five years on several feature films, digital content, and other productions including a performance piece at MoMA PS1 featuring Franco and Marina Abramovic. The films have included talent such as Jessica Chastain, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff, Olivia Wilde, Whoopi Goldberg, Chloe Sevigny and Logan
Marshall-Green and have gone to Sundance, Venice, Berlin, Telluride, and AFI. She is currently producing a feature with Keanu Reeves and is developing several other scripted films and TV series.
Shruti received her Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and was the first graduate of NYU’s dual MFA (in Film) at Tisch and MBA at the Stern School of Business, where she had the Kenshin Oshima Scholarship and a Wayfare Fellowship. Shruti has also been a TED India (INK) Fellow and was a Global Economic Symposium Young Fellow. Shruti is a member of the Entertainment Consortium Collaborative Outreach Program (ECCO) for the White House and is on the Creative Council for Emily’s List. Shruti hails from India by way of Oman.
Julius Pryor
Producer
Julius and Marttise are award-winning filmmakers and the co-founders of Pryor Hill Productions, a film & digital production company that focuses on creating compelling content by filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds. They are Sundance Institute Creative Producing alumni.