ABOUT
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”
– Jack Kerouac
"What is the earth for - what is the night for - what is food & strength for - what is man for? For joy, for joy."
Jack Kerouac
We believe in the transformative power of art, in the deep seated human need for connection, the need for our lives to be noticed and to be shared. We want our films to bear witness to stories of human struggle both in triumph and in failure. We search for stories that challenge our audience to see joy in the world and to realize their own capabilities to initiate social change.
Mission
Creative Team
Annalisa Dias
is a Masters Candidate in Theatre History & Criticism in Washington, DC as well as an actor, a director, and a playwright. She has worked at Folger Shakespeare Theater, Theater Alliance, The American Century Theater, Glass Mind Theatre, and the Inkwell; has taught elementary and middle school drama classes in Los Angeles and in Washington DC; and has published research on representations of identity in Text & Presentation, the annual academic journal of the Comparative Drama Conference. As Director of The Salima Project, she assembled an international team of artists and educators who were equally committed to exploring cultural forces at work in a globalized world.
Kelly Bumford
is a Los Angeles freelance television producer. After moving to Los Angeles in December 2009, she has gained credits with NBC, MTV, VH1, TBS, Bravo, Comedy Central, and OWN. Being on staff with Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Films and Brian Graden Media, she quickly climbed the production ladder, and has most recently worked as a Production Manager on NBC’s “Fashion Star” Season 2 and on Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s brand new “hitRECord on TV” from Pivot/Participant Media.
Over Summer 2013, she traveled to Malawi with REP partner, Annalisa Dias, to shoot and produce the Salima Project – an international collaboration of artists to teach theatre techniques that teach community health and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. The Salima Project is currently in post-production with an estimated completion date of February 2014.
She has a BFA from Florida State University in Motion Picture Arts.
BEARING WITNESS.
CHALLENGING AUDIENCES.
