Team
TONI SHORT
Executive Producer, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor
Toni embodies time and expansiveness to excel in communication as she moves from a deeply intuitive place with her entrepreneurial approach to her cross-functional and award winning roles within the global film industry.
Her journey to the screen has been rich and textured and Toni’s innate ability to curate environments for excellence transfers to the screen and the hearts of audiences.
Toni is renowned for delivering above expectations. Her collaborations with production companies and corporations such as BBC, Publicis Group, Starcom, Wallpaper and Warner Music speak volumes. The breadth and depth of her professional life in the entertainment business fuels her on screen persona to be equally disciplined and free in the creative eco cycle while keeping a keen eye on the bottom line.
Her artistic nature crossed with her strengths in process and action combine with well her sharp structured commercial acumen that continuously delivers creativity with fiduciary responsibility.
Toni comes alive as the conduit for shepherding moving images from linear to a holographic experience by creating the intersections that move projects and teams through the stages of ideation to red carpet. A master at the business of art and the art of business.
Her work finds the essence of any message and her track record and ability to oversee and understand the intricacies of production and the importance of delivery as the core foundations to any project or campaign shine with expert craftsmanship and happy souls while telling raw stories about the exquisite journey of being a human.
JEONGWON LEE
PRODUCER, DIRECTOR
Jeongwon Lee is a Korean producer and director based in New York city. She has worked for eight years as a Producer / Account Executive in commercial projects with Korean major companies such as LG, IBK, and the Korean government. After moving to New York, Jeongwon Lee produced and directed short films and music videos such as "Into The Dark" and "Uncalled Guest". She has also worked on branded contents for fashion/cosmetic clients.
catherine woo
assignments handler
Aspiring screenwriter and producer, Catherine, will graduate from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Art History in May 2024. During college, she interned with Rattlestick Theater, Protozoa Pictures, New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) and BuzzLab PR Firm. She is a contributor to NYWIFT’s blog and podcast as well as a Development & Programming Coordinator for their annual MUSE Awards show. In January 2024, she volunteered with Socially Relevant Film Festival (SRFF) as a script reader.
Director, Writer, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Anna Maués is a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and producer who graduated from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro majoring in Radio, Television.
For over six years, she worked for GNT, Mais Globosat, and VIVA, three major channels at Globosat, the pay-tv branch of Globo Studios, one of the largest TV conglomerates in the world.
Now, based out of New York, she is best known for her work in independent movies and TV series, including the celebrated super short "Shadow", the award-winning script for the TV Series “Heritage” and the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival semi-finalist “Life In Covid”.
She has also worked as an assistant director and associate producer on several movies, TV shows, and commercials.
anna maués
JILL VAN EPPS
PRODUCER, DP, EDITOR
Jill Van Epps is a writer, filmmaker and producer based in Brooklyn.
She studied film in Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship and was the recipient of the Margaret C. Annan Award in writing. She earned her M.F.A. in visual art from Goldsmiths College in London. Her video installations have been shown at galleries including the Flat Time House, Guest Projects, Foodface Projects, New London Gallery, and the Swiss Church.
Blaga Ditrow
Cinematographer
NYC based photographer and cinematographer, Blaga Ditrow, works with a range of film and digital cameras to capture human experiences. Your creative partner from the very first idea of the project until the moment it becomes a work of art. Jazz, travel, dogs, NY and the ocean are few of her favorite things. Having spent most of her childhood in a movie studio because of her father (a movie director himself) she shares her love of cinema with us through her addiction to film, capturing and telling stories.
