Producers

  • Seyi Adebanjo, MFA, is a Queer Gender-Non-Conforming Nigerian artist who raises awareness around social issues through video. Seyi’s work exists at the intersection of art, imagination, ritual, and politics. Seyi is a 2024 Sundance Documentary Film Fund Awardee, a 2023 Sundance Institute Trans Possibilities Intensive Fellow and serves on the faculty of New York University.  Seyi has received a Fatales Forward: Trans Stories Fellowship, an NYSCA Individual Artist Grant , and residency with The Laundromat Project.  Seyi is a 2022 Semi-Finalist for the Sundance Humanities Sustainability Fellowship. Seyi’s award winning documentaries “Justice for Islan Nettles” has screened on PBS Channel 13, and “Ọya: Something Happened On The Way To West Africa continues to screen globally.

  • Nala Simone Toussaint is the founder & executive director of Reuniting of African Descendants (ROAD). ROAD is a Black Trans-led grassroots effort invested in advancing the social and economic wellness of TLGBQIA+ African Descendants throughout the Black Diaspora, with an urgent focus on Trans and nonbinary people. Nala works with African descendants of diverse backgrounds to support their health goals and well-being. She has extensive experience as an outreach liaison and in coordinating educational/job development services at renowned LGBTQ public service organizations. Nala is dedicated to addressing racial and gender-based violence and fostering healing within BIPOC and LGBTQ communities. She is the Black Trans Advocacy Coordinator at the National Black Justice Coalition and has provided consulting work and public speaking engagements for organizations and universities, such as Black Women Radicals and Skidmore College. Her impactful work has been featured in publications, including Essence, Out, and The New York Times.

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  • An avid supporter of the arts and artists for over 35 years, Bryan E. Glover is an Obie award-winning theater producer, as well as a producer of music, film and performance art who is especially interested in enhancing and promoting the voices of LGBTQ artists of color. Glover served as a founding board member of Freedom Train Productions, the groundbreaking Black LGBTQ theater company based in Brooklyn, NY, and is a founding member of the Black theater producing collaborative, Harlem9. He is a team lead at Leading ChangeMakers, which seeks to achieve racial equity in nonprofit arts leadership, and currently serves on the board of the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, which supports creative work in all disciplines that are empowering to women, Latinos and people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. Glover is also a professional life, executive and leadership coach supporting others in manifesting their vision.

Co-Producer

  • Félix Endara is an Ecuadorian-born trans immigrant documentary filmmaker who produced "North by Current" (2021, Dir: Angelo Madsen Minax), which premiered at Berlinale and aired on POV in November 2021, earning acclaim from Rolling Stone and Filmmaker; and "UNSEEN" (2023, Dir: Set Hernandez), which was featured at the 2022 Gotham Documentary Feature Lab, premiered at HotDocs in May 2023, and will air on POV in March 2024. He serves on the Board of Chicken & Egg Pictures and chairs the Board of Working Films. Additionally, he is an Impact Partners Producers Fellow. Félix advocates for trans filmmakers, advising the 2023 Sundance Institute's Trans Possibilities Intensive, founding the Trans Affinity Group within the Documentary Producers Alliance, and promoting authentic queer and trans storytelling in outlets like the Hollywood Reporter.

Executive Producers

  • Lilly Wachowski (she/her) is a trans woman and lifelong Chicago resident. She holds a half-finished BA as well as an almost completed Post Baccalaureate certificate from SAIC. Lilly has worked as a Building Maintenance Technician’s Assistant, self-employed carpenter and Writer/Producer/Director for Warner Bros, Netflix and Showtime among others, co-producing/directing The Matrix film series, and the television series Sense8. She also paints; sometimes she paints ducks. Lilly is also co-founder of Anarchists United Studios which develops and produces film, TV shows, other media and a select portfolio of documentaries.

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  • Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent. Drucker is Co-Director of the Peabody award wining documentary The Stroll.