Bridget Moloney, Writer/Director
Bridget is an award-winning writer and director working in television, film and commercials. A current member of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, she is the writer/director of the independent television pilot I WAS A TEENAGE PILLOW QUEEN that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca TV Festival. Bridget also directs commercials for nationally recognized brands. Her latest project was for Razor Scooters with Unicorns & Unicorns. As an actor, she’s appeared in more than 40 commercials, many network and cable television shows, and independent and studio films. As a playwright she won the Bennington Young Playwright competition. She also has a master’s in clinical psychology, that she only uses on set, and graduated with honors from Northwestern University. She lives in her hometown of Los Angeles with her husband and two young children.
Kate Chamuris, Producer
Her producing experience includes the short BLOCKS (dir. Bridget Moloney) that had its world premiere at Sundance 2020 and the creative team was the subject of a Southwest Airlines sponsored LA Times docu-series on their journey to Sundance. MILLER & SON (dir. Asher Jelinsky) was on the Oscar Shortlist for Live Action Short ‘20, won the Gold Student Academy Award ‘19, won the student BAFTA live action short award ‘19 and their casting director, Russell Boast, was nominated for a CSA Artios Award ‘20. It is a Vimeo Staff Pick and is online on Short of the Week and Omeleto. BALLOON (dir. Jeremy Merrifield) Oscar qualified by winning the Grand Prix at HollyShorts ‘19, is a Vimeo Staff Pick and is online on Short of the Week and Omeleto. UNSPEAKABLE (dir. Milena Govich) world premiered at SXSW ‘18. Kate is currently a development producer at Dream Three Films in Los Angeles, CA.
Kristin Slaysman, Producer
Kristin is a graduate of Northwestern University and a Los Angeles-based producer, actor and director. Kristin recently produced the pilot I WAS A TEENAGE PILLOW QUEEN, starring Claire Coffee and Josh Pais, and well as a narrative feature about the L.A. rock & roll scene called THE ICARUS LINE MUST DIE and Josh Crockett's DR. BRINKS & DR. BRINKS, in which she also stars. As an actor, her TV credits include: L.A.’S FINEST, SHOOTER, MASTERS OF SEX, AMERICAN HORROR STORY and her feature film work has premiered at Berlin, Sundance & SXSW film festivals, among others. She wrote/directed the short BRETT KAVANAUGH IS RUINING MY SEX LIFE, currently on the festival circuit.
Valerie Steinberg, Producer
Valerie’s film producing credits include HAIR WOLF (dir. Mariama Diallo; 2018 Sundance Jury Award winner for US Fiction Short Film), FRY DAY (dir. Laura Moss; world premiere SXSW; Student Visionary Award winner at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival), BUG BITE (dir. Emily Ann Hoffman, 2019 AFI Fest, Palm Springs), COFFEE SHOP NAMES (dir. Deepak Sethi, Soho House grantee), and EVERYBODY DIES! (dir. Nuotama Bodomo), which is part of the premiere episode of the HBO series RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS, as well as the omnibus feature COLLECTIVE: UNCONSCIOUS (world premiere SXSW). She is also the Consulting Producer of Ash Mayfair’s Vietnamese period drama feature film THE THIRD WIFE (three-time Independent Spirit Award nominee, TIFF award winner). She is an Executive Producer of the upcoming feature film BEAST, co-directed by Riley Keough. She is in post-production as the Producer of Jake Wachtel’s Cambodian science-fiction feature IN THE NEXT LIFE, and she is a 2019 Film Independent Producing Lab fellow and Tribeca All Access grantee with Elegance Bratton’s upcoming feature THE INSPECTION. Valerie earned her BA in Philosophy and Chinese at Yale University.