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ANNA KATHLEEN 2020
  • PRODUCTION DESIGN
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M // FILMMAKERS

Christina Burchard

Director / Producer (she/her)

Christina Burchard is an accomplished documentary filmmaker with a deep passion for storytelling. She made her narrative directorial debut with the hybrid film Miss Brown which premiered in competition at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to that, she directed Season 2 of The Confession Tapes (A24) which explored the culpability of the criminal justice system, and two seasons of the Emmy-nominated series Why We Fight (ESPN+) about a charismatic boxer battling opioid addiction. Christina has directed and developed projects supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the Sundance Institute, the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, and The Harnisch Foundation, as well as HBO, Showtime, Netflix, A24, ESPN, PBS, VICE, the International Venice Film Festival, IDFA Amsterdam, NYFF, Tribeca, Sundance, and the Toronto Film Festival.

Anna Kathleen

Writer / Producer (she/her)

Anna Kathleen is a veteran Production Designer and fiction writer embarking on her first filmmaking venture of original work with M, adapted from her own short story of the same title, published by Beyond Queer Words in July 2022. Prior to M, her Production Design work has graced screens big and small, including a 2022 premier at Tribeca for Miss Brown (dir. Christina Burchard) and two Sundance appearances including 2021’s Resurrection (IFC, starring Rebecca Hall, dir. Andrew Semans) and the upcoming 2024 premier of A Different Man (A24, Killer Films, starring Sebastian Stan, dir. Aaron Schimberg). Her approach to both fiction writing and Production Design is grounded in psychology, rooting creative choices primarily in character pathologies which in turn inform a heightened aesthetic.

Christine Shepard

Actor, “M” (she/her)

Christine Shepard grew up dancing in Columbus, OH. She moved to NYC to attend Pace University to study Commercial Dance. While in school she joined the cast of two Broadway shows (Head Over Heels, Mean Girls). After graduating she has continued to perform both on stage and for film. In fall of 2021 she was a soloist for the short film Only Living Boy which was selected to be part of the LA Experimental Film & Music Festival. Her most recent performance was at the Public Theater in the production  Shadow/land. She and her ensemble members received a nomination from the Audelco awards.

IG: @xtineresidency

Nona Catusanu-Popp

Director of Photography (she/her)

Born in Romania and raised in NYC, Nona Catusanu-Popp is a cinematographer and visual artist. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Film and TV and went on to study in the Cinematography Master’s Program at The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in the Czech Republic. She is a recipient of the ASC Vision Mentorship Award. A member of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG Local 600) and International Collective of Female Cinematographers (ICFC), she currently serves on the advisory board for Pano Network, an organization that supports underrepresented women, non-binary, and GNC creators in every aspect of the entertainment industry. Nona has been at the helm of productions both large and small across three continents, including long and short form narratives, documentaries, commercials and music videos.

Ezra Rose

Producer (they/them)

Ezra Rose is a filmmaker living on Lenape land/New York City. Born in Norfolk, England, Rose began their career in entertainment playing disgruntled children on television. As part of the AFI DWW+ 2024-2025 program, they are making the narrative short film, OLD DYKES, a love story about old dykes. Rose has directed several short films including CLOWN TITS, an experimental meditation on dysphoria told through drag, dance and queer history, and LIKE MAMMA MIA?, a comedy film about a woman who has the idea for Mamma Mia the musical, only to discover it’s already been made.

They are a Winter 2024 Guest Resident at Woodward Residency in Ridgewood, Queens. Rose is currently working on a documentary project, PAPER TIES, with a digital newsletter companion Gender Appropriate, about the radical history of community-generated transgender publications.

Courtney Webster

Producer (she/they)

Courtney Webster is a Multidisciplinary artist focusing on the intersections of race, gender, class, sex, power, and the media. She divides her time between film projects, photo projects, and media literacy programs. She believes that time is nonlinear, gender is fluid, land ownership is theft , and no one is illegal. Courtney recently curated The Romance of Entanglement In the Era of the Observer’s Paradox at the BGSQD in the summer of 2023. The show contained 11 queer artists from multiple disciplines and was widely regarded as an important contribution to the NY queer art scene. In 2020, Courtney produced the Thank God For Abortion Anthem video for the Artist and Director Viva Ruiz. Over the past several years, Courtney’s collaborative photographic project with Meg Turner PATRICIDE has been shown in New York at The Leslie Lohman Museum of gay and lesbian art, Bureau of General Services - Queer Division, BRIC, and WildProject. In 2021, they won the prestigious Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers.

Jessica Rose Weiss

Composer (she/her)

Jessica Rose Weiss is a composer based in Los Angeles, CA. She first fell in love with music studying ballet and theatre in New York City. This passion eventually led her to Warner Brothers Studios in London where she was recruited by Hans Zimmer to apprentice at Remote Control Productions. She recently co-scored Sony’s hit No Hard Feelings alongside composer Mychael Danna, directed by Gene Stupnitsky, starring Jennifer Lawrence. Past credits include Sony/Amazon’s Cinderella, directed by Kay Cannon and starring pop superstar Camila Cabello, which was the #1 streaming film Worldwide. For this achievement, she won her first BMI Award.

Tory Lenosky

Executive Producer (she/her)

Tory is a Nebraska raised, New York based award winning producer. She most recently produced the 2022 New York Times Critic’s Pick feature film Resurrection (Sundance 2022). Other credits include the Netflix comedy special, Nightclub Comedian starring Aziz Ansari, The Hater (Sundance Director Lab Project 2019 with Joey Ally, Meredith Hagner, and Bruce Dern), Lost Transmissions  (Tribeca Film Festival 2019, with Simon Pegg and Juno Temple), and Loitering With Intent, (Tribeca Film Festival 2014, with Marisa Tomei and Sam Rockwell). Tory was awarded the 2023 Independent Spirit Producer Award. She was nominated for an Emmy for the short film Humankinda.