Sarah Ullman is a progress-minded filmmaker and advocate for equity in all its forms. Last year, Sarah led the One Vote at a Time team of 56 women to produce free campaign videos for 191 gun sense candidates in 11 states. Previous work includes "Your Food's Roots" for ATTN: with Zooey Deschanel, "Smart Girls Vote" for Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, and gun violence for Joss Whedon’s progressive SuperPAC "Save The Day." Sarah led a team of 7 cameras as the documentarian for the March for Our Lives in Washington DC. In the 2017 election cycle, she produced campaign ads for 19 candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates and directed the political comedy video #DoYourJob, which garnered 11M views and 200K shares online. Her production company, Master Plan, provides production and consulting services. Companies and organizations she has worked with include Maker Studios, DisneyXD, NFL, Paramount, Superfly, Reach Agency, JASH, SoulPancake, @radicalmedia, and The Media Impact Project, amongst others.

Mara Tasker is a director and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. Hailing from Denver Colorado, her background is in digital media and filmmaking. She’s passionate about women being the authors of their own stories and brought that to VICE Media where she served as a Development Executive and lead West Coast producer for the company’s most successful channel launch in its history - Broadly - a women’s news vertical.

After leaving VICE, she went on to work with leading digital brands including Condé Nast (Vanity Fair, WIRED, Vogue, Teen Vogue), Crypt TV, One Vote at a Time and more. She’s worked at all levels of film storytelling from funding and development through distribution and festival acclaim on such titles as A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, WOLFPACK and LORDS OF CHAOS among others that have achieved international critical (and cult) acclaim.

Emma serves as One Vote's Political Advisor, working alongside the Executive Directors to shape the 2020 political strategy, build political and organizational partnerships, and connect with campaigns across the country. Emma knows that state and local elections are the foundations of monumental change.

Emma has supported issue-based advocacy campaigns for more than a decade, working in red and blue states to push policy change on gun violence prevention, reproductive health reform, and increasing access to (and effectiveness of) voting rights for all. Emma is the Cofounder of Harrison Clark, a female-founded and led government affairs firm that’s rethinking national advocacy, state by state. She is excited to use her extensive background to help bring strong voices to statehouses throughout the nation.

Cara Maiatico is a production coordinator based in Los Angeles. She earned her BFA in Film & Television Production from Desales University and has worked on an array of films, documentaries, narrative television, commercials and more recently, tackling the art of 35mm photography. She has always been fascinated by learning about the experiences of others and translating them into moving images. She is constantly challenging herself and discovering more about the sort of stories she wants to help bring to life and more importantly, the person she wants to be.

Emi Mwendapole is a political coordinator with a background in start-up business strategy based in Los Angeles, CA. She has a degree in political science from Emory University and has lived and worked all over the world. She has a passion for storytelling, system building, and problem-solving. She has worked in a number of roles and has been featured in numerous publications including OkayAfrica, Vogue Korea, and Harpers Bazaar spreading global black girl magic.

Lydia “Sue-Ellen” Chitunya is a filmmaker who hails from Zimbabwe. She is a 2019 Georgia State University (BA’10) 40 under 40 honoree and a graduate of the UCLA professional producing program. In 2020 She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS/OSCARS). She is a Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Fellowship recipient.

Chitunya has participated in the following artist development programs: 2020 Women In Film INSIGHT, 2019 Industry Academy, Rotterdam Lab, Durban FilmMart, Film Independent’s Project Involve, Berlinale Talents, Cannes Film Festival Marchè Du Film Workshop, Caribbean Tales Incubator, Kyoto Filmmakers Lab, and Durban Talent Campus. Chitunya has produced several shorts that have screened at festivals around the world including BFI London, Tirbeca, Iris Prize, and Outfest. Her varied work experience includes marketing for Disney College Program, programming for Zimbabwe, Atlanta and Slamdance Film Festivals; She recently worked as a Post Production Coordinator on Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Black Panther (2018).

Maya E. Rudolph is a producer and post-production supervisor based in Los Angeles. Her recent producing credits include the feature films The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Shirkers, and the Netflix original documentary series The Devil Next Door. Maya is the former bilingual head producer of the Chinese language co-production of Sesame Street and has produced non-fiction films and series for VICE, The Creator’s Project, American Girl, UNICEF and many more. She is thrilled to be joining One Vote as a Post Supervisor for the 2020 season.

Avrielle Gallagher is a seasoned nonfiction producer and development executive specializing in ideating, developing and producing premium documentary content across all platforms. Most recently, she developed nonfiction content for Concordia Studios, a production company created by Davis Guggenheim & Jonathan King and Religion of Sports, a media company created by filmmaker Gotham Chopra, Tom Brady & Michael Strahan.

She was previously Head of Development at Oscar-nominated production company Dirty Robber. While at Dirty Robber, she developed a documentary series that sold to Netflix in December 2018. Through the years, she's developed and produced documentary content for HBO, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube Originals, Apple TV+, MTV, MSNBC.com, MTV, History & NBC Sports.

She serves on the It Gets Better Project's Board of Directors and enjoys making countless varieties of pesto, swimming in most bodies of water and getting lost in TikTok.

Cemile hails from Istanbul, Turkey. She attributes her affinity toward challenging, stylized subjects that inspire community to working under Herzog before completing her MFA in Producing from the American Film Institute. Despite this focus, nothing stops her from choosing a project based on the collaborators involved. She has completed two socially conscious feature films, and she is currently working with Amazon Music and multiple non-profit organizations as an independent producer in Los Angeles, CA. One of her feature films, Ice Cream in the Cupboard, recently got acquired by Gravitas Ventures and has been released in July 2020.

Reena Dutt is a theatre/film director and producer. Her personal mission statement is to amplify the unheard through entertainment. As a director, she created TOO MANY BODIES, a music and dance piece that played at targeted festivals in swing states to use as a conversation starter for gun reform. As a Creative and Line Producer, her projects have appeared in over 75 festivals internationally including Sundance, Los Angeles Film Festival, Outfest, NBCUniversal Shorts, Frameline, CAAMfest, and The American Pavilion at Cannes. She has produced a wide array of content for directors like Lulu Wang, John Legend, and Justin Lin, and her work has been picked up by networks including Latino/PBS, NBCUniversal, BET, HBO, and TelloFilms.com. Her branded and commercial work includes clients such as Nestle, Mondelez, Nike, and Viacom. Dutt is a past fellow at Film Independent and SFFilm. For more information, www.ReenaDutt.com and www.PaintedTreeRoad.com.

Valerie Jean-Charles is a Communications Strategist who has worked on various advocacy issues including gun violence prevention, racial justice, economic justice and voting rights. She specializes in media relations, building and implementing communications strategy and project management. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Emily is a designer and award-winning writer/director. Her short film Spare Parts played around the world, and her debut feature is slated for production in late 2020. As a designer, she has art directed feature films, commercials, and music videos featured at Sundance, SXSW, and Rotterdam. She is also an animator/illustrator with clients including Vogue, Google, Comedy, Central, many startups, and animation direction for feature documentaries. She has produced work at NYC off-broadway theaters Ars Nova and Theatre Row.

Kantú Lentz is a Peruvian-German filmmaker based in Los Angeles who creates films that take place in alternate realities with magical realism elements.

She recently directed the short film JACK AND JO DON’T WANT TO DIE commissioned by the Shatterbox Anthology Series starring Justin Kirk (Weeds/Angels in America) and Olivia Edward (Better Things) which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Her film COCHE BOMBA is one of five projects selected by the Tribeca/Chanel ‘Through Her Lens’ fellowship this year. She is part of this year's Sony Diverse Directors Program as well as the 2019 Viacom Viewfinder Emerging Directors Program.

In 2018 Kantu travelled the country and directed political ads for One Vote at a Time, which create in kind campaign videos for democrats in flippable states who are pro gun safety legislation. Kantu also directed a New Balance campaign starring Emma Roberts and was commissioned to direct a branded doc-short for TUMI as part of the Perfect Journey Campaign which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.


Kantu is an AFI Directing Workshop for Women alumni. Her short, Struck By Her, premiered at the Oscar qualifying 44th Annual USA Film Festival. The comedic video, Roller Coaster Break-up, Kantu wrote and directed starring Moses Storm (Sunnyside, Unfriended) went viral with currently 8 million views and counting. Most recently Kantu produced a YouTube Originals educational series "Money Talks" for Vice & Refinery 29.

Kantú is currently developing the feature length version of JACK AND JO DON’T WANT TO DIE with Level Forward and Refinery 29.

Jessica Pantoja is a Mexican Cinematographer. She graduated from a Bachelors in Science in Communications and Entrepreneurship but she decided to pursue a career in filmmaking. She received training in the camera department while working as the only female camera technician in EFD, later earning her the skills to be a camera assistant under talented Mexican and American Cinematographers. She moved to LA to pursue an education as a Director of Photography. She received her MFA with specialty in Cinematography at AFI and became a NAUI certified Underwater Cinematographer and Camera Operator.

Jessica’s passion for storytelling and non verbal communication motivates her to work in different fields of filmmaking and photography pushing her creative boundaries constantly to create unique content every time. Her pool of experience involves short films, feature films, documentaries, commercials, music videos, fashion and abstract art pieces.

Her work has been displayed in many different platforms around the world including film festivals as Camerimage, Krakow film festival, Cine Gear and VIZIO filmmakers Challenge, just to mention a few. Jessica has also collaborated with greater artists and publications such as NYLON Magazine developing Fashion and Beauty content for the now online publication and Zoe Saldana´s LATINX digital news platform, BESE.

Later this year will premiere her latest feature film in Mexican theaters.

Though Jessica enjoys diversifying her pool of work her passion lays on documentary filmmaking as she believed that sharing true stories allows people to empathize on another level with the subject of the film. This passion has lead to collaborations with organizations such as One Vote at a Time, Home Story Tellers and Marrriott´s travel channel.

Neha Shastry is an award winning independent documentary filmmaker and television host. She has produced and directed films across 5 continents for clients like Netflix, CNN, National Geographic, Youtube and Vice News. Her work synthesizes intimate and immersive storytelling to shine a light on larger issues in society today. Her films have spanned topics from discrimination in India’s mental health system, living conditions for blue collar workers across Silicon Valley, to the history and legacy of voter suppression in the United States.

At both Vice and CNN, the majority of her work was in front of the camera. But now, she’s focusing on directing and producing, and in the past year has produced two feature documentaries with Liz Garbus's Story Syndicate, one a political feature for Amazon Films, and the other, a global Pandemic film for Netflix. Prior to this, she produced a travel series for National Geographic that will air on Disney Plus, and developed a series for Quibi.

Skylar Zhang is an LA-based editor and assistant editor. Graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory with an MFA in Editing, Skylar has worked on numerous award-winning narrative feature and short films as well as documentaries. Her AFI thesis film "Dia de las Carpas" was the winner of the DGA Student Film Awards, on top of being selected to some of the most prestigious film festivals around the world. Skylar is thrilled to be part of the One Vote team and is inspired to make a change with her talented fellow female filmmakers.

Pin-Hua is a Los Angeles based freelance sound editor/designer. While working in radio broadcasting, she gradually developed an interest in sound for moving images. After receiving her MFA from CalArts in Sound Design, Pin-Hua has worked on numerous short animations, feature-length movies, and TV shows.

Fay is a Southern California native. She earned a BA in Documentary Film Directing in 2011 and shortly after became the only female director/editor for the world’s most popular online automotive channel. Currently, she works for Awesomeness TV as a lead editor and story producer in the docudrama department. She is honored and excited to remain a part of the One Vote at a Time team.

Gema is an independent film, TV, and video producer, editor and assistant editor. She lives between Los Angeles and NYC and has worked with production and post-production teams of shows distributed by major studios and platforms such as Netflix, NBC, CBS, PBS and DisneyXD. Her editorial experience also includes music documentaries, TV specials, independent films, commercials and music videos.

Gema is originally from Guatemala City, Guatemala; a nature rich country with social inequalities that influenced her to grow passionate about environmental, cultural and social issues.

Martine is an LA-based video editor. She has worked on shows for Netflix (Making a Murderer), YouTube Red (Escape the Night) and KCET (Blue Sky Metropolis) and cut content for brands like Google, Lyft and I Heart Radio. In her spare time, she works with a non-profit called She Sees, teaching young women in South LA to tell their stories through documentary film.

She is a proud dog mom to rescue mutts Kylo and Looper.

See more of her work at: martinecharnow.com

Victoria Blair is a motion graphics designer based in Washington, DC. She has a degree in Film & Television Production from DeSales University and has worked for various non-profits, arts organizations, and campaigns. She never imagined that her lifelong hobby of doodling would lead her to a fulfilling career of animation, but she loves to bring beauty to all kinds of stories. Driven by passion and advocacy, Victoria is thrilled to share her voice alongside the talented and diverse group of women at One Vote.

Vashni Balleste is best known for her dream-like music video direction & photography of indie artists and bands. Her work has been seen in TheFader, OkayPlayer, NPR, Pitchfork, Vibe Magazine, Saint Heron and Offbeat Magazine. In her early career she photographed and wrote for Ebony Magazine’s online platform and interviewed music artists.

Photography and writing essentially led to Vashni’s passion for counter-cultures and documentary filmmaking. A grant recipient of UNCF, she traveled to the borders of Haiti/Dominican Republic to document migrant workers and cover border issues. A true cultural enthusiast, her goal is always to shed light on untold histories. She is currently working on her first film.

Sofia is a documentary editor and assistant editor who moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Carleton College in Minnesota. She is excited to join One Vote at a Time and to learn from such a talented and diverse group of filmmakers.

Sofia expresses her commitment to social transformation through grassroots organizing and nonfiction filmmaking. As a kid she wanted to be an author, and she still dabbles in creative writing. She is mother to a cat named Anna May Wong and aspires to be a cool auntie one day.

Kara Johnson is a filmmaker and musician from Raleigh, North Carolina. She has a strong passion for communicating with audiences, both visually and aurally. Thankful for the abundance of creative outlets in Los Angeles, Kara has been involved in numerous productions with companies such as Hulu, Amazon Music, Condé Nast Entertainment, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, Geek & Sundry, Funny or Die, Crypt TV, Relativity Television, Film Independent, and the Los Angeles Film Festival. Kara had her directorial debut in 2018 with her feature film "Luke & Jedi" - a documentary about service dogs for those living with Type 1 Diabetes. She has an EP titled "Stories" available on most music streaming platforms.

B. Monét is a writer/director who graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in English. She hails from Silver Spring, Maryland and holds an MFA from New York University in Film and Television with a concentration in writing and directing. Her award-winning short film Q.U.E.E.N. has screened at over a dozen festivals including Cannes Short Film Corner and premiered on Magic Johnson's channel ASPiRE. She was also named the 2017 Horizon Award Winner through Cassian Elwes, Christine Vachon and Lynette Howell - Taylor at the Sundance Film Festival. She’s been fortunate to work with Reese Witherspoon, Janet Jackson, Rosario Dawson, Chika, Rapsody and Shangela for brands like Crate and Barrel, Estee Lauder, Uber, OkayAfrica, OkayPlayer, and Hyundai. Last year she made history by becoming the first black woman to direct a Cadillac commercial. She was selected as one of the filmmakers in the New York Stage and Film Filmmakers' Workshop at Vassar College for her Q.U.E.E.N in July 2019. Additionally, B. Monét was selected as one of the participants in the Artist Academy with the New York Film Festival and Lincoln Center. Most recently, B. Monét was selected as one of the winners for the Queen Collective in partnership with Queen Latifah, Tribeca and P&G. Her short film Ballet After Dark was exclusively streaming on Hulu and now BET.

Milana Vayntrub is an Uzbekistan born Jewish refugee who began her career performing improv, making YouTube videos, and selling cupcakes to raise money to fund the filming of a tv pilot. In 2016, she released an award-winning short documentary "Can’t Do Nothing - Refugees in Lesbos," which later became a fundraising tool to build schools and medical centers for refugees in Greece and Lebanon. She tours, speaking on activism and global citizenship, at colleges and organizations like the Sisterhood of Salam Shalom, Miry’s List, and Islamic Relief. She is a standup comedian and writer for Robot Chicken. She’s an actor on shows like This Is Us, @Midnight, Other Space, and portrays Lily in long-running AT&T campaign. Milana is currently represented as a director at Hungry Man, an acclaimed international production company.

Kelsey Boyte is a writer and director based in Los Angeles, CA. She earned her degree in International Relations with an emphasis on peace-building and social justice from The University of San Diego. She is the founder of Bean Dog Films, a bespoke film production company that produces human-centric branded content, music videos, and documentary shorts for brands, athletes, artists, and NGOs worldwide. Kelsey is passionate about the power of language and how words shape people, ideas, and culture. In her work, activism, and writing, she believes that meaningful change can be met and made at the intersection of radical empathy and radical accountability.

She loves high-altitude hiking, deep-sea fishing, big trees, wild columbine, baseball, and adventures with her year-old son, Silas.

Jing is interested in telling stories because stories map out the emotional gravity of our lived experiences. As a first generation Chinese-American immigrant, she used art as a way to communicate long before learning her first words of English.

Tackling both narrative and documentary stories helps Jing stay close to real people. In 2016 Jing spent three months walking around Japan’s smallest island, following the footsteps of a woman who lived one hundred years ago. The resulting film, “The Traveler Takamure” won the Hellen Hill Award at IndieGrits film festival.

Jing began her directing career working for online media companies like Wired, Teen Vogue and Ars Technica. These videos have garnered millions of views and two Telly Awards. Soon afterwards, she started directing music videos, these videos have premiered on numerous online sites like The Fader, Flaunt Magazine, Sukeban, booooooom.tv and StereoGum.

Jing just wrapped post-production on her newest film, a queer diasporic wushu film. A Visual Communications AWC fellow and previous Crosstown Artist in Residence, she is currently writing her first feature film. Based in Los Angeles, Jing lives to paint communities of color in a new light.

Jackie J. Stone is an award-winning director/writer and a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and is a fellow for the highly selective Fox Directing Lab (2018-2019) and Ryan Murphy’s Half Initiative Directing Program (2018). Jackie's films have screened at numerous film festivals including the American Black Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, LA Film Festival Project Involve Showcase, Bermuda International Film Festival, Festival of Tolerance, and HBO Network among others. Jackie's work has received numerous accolades including the Jerome Foundation Filmmaker Grant (2011, 2015), the Panavision New Filmmaker's Grant (2013), and the New York State Council of the Arts Grant (2009). Most recently she made history by having two short films, Burning Angel Dust and Intercept, nominated for the HBO Short Film Award at Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival (2017). She's received Best Short Film Awards at the following festivals: Bronzelens Film Festival (an Oscar Qualifier), Big Muddy Film Festival, the Gary International Black Film Festival, Las Vegas Black Film Festival, and the Women's Only Film Festival and she was awarded Best Director at the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. Her provocative short If I Leap won the best short at the Harlem International Film Festival (2011) and was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the Chicago International Film Festival (2011) and ABFF's HBO's Short Film Award (2011).

Zoe Bower grew up in Rochester, NY and went on to pursue her BA in Cinema Art & Science at Columbia College Chicago. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles in 2017 and started her career as an Assistant Editor at Ant Farm, a trailer house. From there she moved to BOND where she assisted and edited on campaigns for Greta, Escape Room, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and Disenchantment.

In 2019, Zoe left trailers and was a post PA on Birds of Prey: And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley and Ryan Murphy’s Ratched. She joined her first scripted show as an assistant editor on How to Get Away With Murder.

Now a part of the One Vote at a Time team, Zoe is excited to collaborate with other fellow female filmmakers on content that is very important to the current political climate.

Cholly Cunningham is a Buffalo, New York native and alumni of College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI where she focused on Video Production and Photography.

In 2012, Cholly established her visual art freelance company, Unicorn Borne Productions, specializing in Video Production, Photography, and Illustration/Design.

In the past, Cholly has worked as a video editor at The Post Office Editorial in Hollywood, CA, as a photographer/editor and videographer for Body Candy Jewelry in Amherst, NY, and as an event supervisor/ videographer for DRC Video Productions nationwide.

Recently she was the Labor & Social Media Coordinator for Flexvisual, an Atlanta based Audio/Visual Production company and recently wrapped an assignment in Real Estate marketing & consulting with Watt Companies in Santa Monica, CA.

Ashley Monti’s editing work includes award-winning films that have screened at top film festivals internationally. Most recently, KATE IN OXNARD was featured in Short of the Week. Ashley took part in AT&T’s Hello Lab Filmmaker Mentoring Lab in which she edited the short film YOUR NAME ISN'T ENGLISH, executive produced by Taika Waititi. Ashley also edited VIOLA, FRANCA that was an Official Selection at the Tribeca Film Festival and has gone on to receive two college Emmys and a best short film nomination at Italy’s Academy of Italian Cinema. In 2017, she was selected to participate in Film Independent's Project Involve Lab in the editing track. She holds an MFA in directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory and a BFA in film production with focus in editing from York University in Toronto, Canada. See more of her work at: www.ashleymonti.com.

Princess A. Hairston is a Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Writer and Emmy-Nominated Editor based in New York City. Her strong storytelling skills have developed through editing in film and television for the past 16 years, working with several advertising agencies, production companies, and independent filmmakers on impactful media content. Princess was Supervising Editor for Pier Kids which premiered at DOCNYC 2019. She was an Editor on Fresh Dressed, an official 2015 Sundance Film Festival selection, and edited the first two episodes of the Emmy-Nominated series Capture with Mark Seliger. Princess edited several short films for the 2020 Webby Award winning web series People Not Property: Stories of Slavery in the Colonial North. She was Lead Editor on Masterpiece of Love, a five-part 81-minute documentary series. Princess was selected for the 2019 DCTV Docu WIP Lab for Little Sallie Walker, she was a 2018 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and a 2018 Winner of the NYTVF + WEtv Producer Pitch which led to a development deal. With a love for exploratory and historical works, Princess has collaborated with several companies and filmmakers to story produce/consult, direct, and edit several works across various media outlets. Her work has been recognized with nominations and awards from the Emmys, The Webbys, and many film festivals.

Jacki Huntington is an independent filmmaker with a specialization in (and unabashed love of) documentary narratives. Her work has brought her inside women’s craft collectives in Haiti, through the cannabis grow operation of Sisters of the Valley, up and down the steps of Jerusalem’s Old City, and into a clothes-optional eco-village in Western North Carolina. She previously worked as a producer at Refinery29 in New York City, where she piloted the unapologetically feminist, body positive video content that continues to influence the brand's video aesthetic. She grew up in North Carolina and studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Los Angeles.

Susie Landers O'Connell is a master of short-form storytelling and has honed her craft across multiple genres including promos and trailers, independent film and web series, branded content, and documentary shorts. Her clients include Participant Media, Sony Pictures Television, NBC, Disney-ABC Television Group, and OWN. She is currently editing the television series Sex Loving Union Traveler, a female-led musical comedy that reclaims and redefines what it means to be a slut. When she is not working toward dismantling the patriarchy, Susie spends her time with her family in Los Angeles. She can solve a Rubik’s cube and make a fantastic sourdough boule. Her activism and active participation in local elections began as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and has guided her need to tell stories that matter and foster change. She is honored to join One Vote at a Time and create impactful media to demand social justice. See more of her work at www.mightylanders.com

Kathryn is a New Jersey native currently based in Los Angeles. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2019 with a degree in American Studies and Film and Media. Kathryn has worked in unscripted and scripted production companies such as Shed Media and Hello Sunshine. In 2020, Kathryn was one of nine finalists for the ACE Internship Program. She is an editor and assistant editor who is passionate about helping other women tell their stories through filmmaking and visual arts, and is excited to join the team at One Vote at a Time.

You can see more of Kathryn's work at KathrynLenihan.com.

Bethany Onstad is a VFX Supervisor and Senior artist originally from rural Wisconsin. She graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Visual Effects from AI Minneapolis. She has been working in Film and TV for 14 years.

She built her VFX company, Pleasantville VFX, to work on indie projects and expand the use and knowledge and inclusion of VFX in the industry. Her and her husband won a Streamy Award for best VFX in 2010 for their work on the web series Fear Clinic. Along with Supervising, Bethany has worked on major blockbuster films as an InHouse Supervisor/Artist. Some of her film credits include; Jungle Cruise, The Joker, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Deadpool and First Man.