PRODUCER
Producing Highlights
Mass - 2021 | Feature film | Co-Producer
Logline: Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
Team: Written and Directed by Fran Kranz (Julia, The Cabin in the Woods). Starring Emmy Winners Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Martha Plimpton (The Goonies, The Good Wife), Tony Winner Reed Birney and Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets). Produced by Fran Kranz, Dylan Matlock, Casey Wilder Mott and J.P. Ouellette.
Festivals, Awards and Distribution: Mass premiered at Sundance, was acquired and distributed by Bleecker Street Media, had a theatrical release, won the Robert Altman Award and was a Gotham, Critics Choice and BAFTA nominee. Full list available on IMDb.
Impact Campaign: Mass was an official partner of the nonprofit Healing TREE (Trauma Resources, Education & Entertainment).
Learn More | IMDb | Streaming | Instagram
Silk - 2022 | Short Film | Producer
Logline: A gifted aerialist struggles to recognize she's being gaslit by her new boyfriend.
Team: Directed by John Magaro (Past Lives, Carol, The Big Short). Written by award-winning playwright David Caudle and Marissa Ghavami. Starring Fran Kranz (Julia, The Cabin in the Woods), Louisa Krause (Billions, The Girlfriend Experience), Garcia (Tales of the City) and Crista Marie Jackson (The Greatest Showman). Produced by Marissa Ghavami (Mass), Lauren Sowa (HBO’s Marisol), David Caudle and Carlos Ibarra.
Festivals and Awards: Official Selection at the Academy Award Qualifying Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series, Semi-Finalist for the Academy Award Qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Honorable Mention at the London International Film Festival, Official Selection for Exhibition at the SOHO International Film Festival, Finalist for the Big Apple Film Festival Agents and Managers Lab, Winner: Best Actor (Fran Kranz) and Best Original Story (David Caudle and Marissa Ghavami) at Cannes Shorts, Official Selection at the Los Angeles Women in Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, Topaz Film Festival, Imagine This Women’s Film Festival, NewFilmmakers NY, 19th Annual Standing Rock International Shorts Festival, Louisville’s International Film Festival, Toronto International Women Film Festival and LA Women in Film Fest.
Impact Campaign: An accompanying workshop, which explores the hardest to spot red flags of abuse and trauma, was built around the film and has reached over 800 participants – including students, domestic violence and addiction treatment center staff and clients, foster care agency staff, military and family court lawyers and judges. Surveys show a significant increase in survivor and perpetrator self-identification and a commitment to using Healing TREE’s resources to get effective treatment.
The Knock Shadow - 2026 | Short Film | Producer
Logline: In the 1980’s, a young, female therapist at a psychiatric ward encounters a patient whose symptoms lead her to question what is real and what isn’t working in the field.
Team: Directed by Lauren Sowa (Brett Was a F*ck). Written by Ren Dara Santiago (staff writer for Showtime’s Let The Right One In and Lanford Wilson Award-winner). Starring Elizabeth Ramos (Chicago Med) and Kenisha Pinckney (Access), featuring two-time Emmy Award winner and three-time SAG Award winner Lea DeLaria (Orange Is The New Black) and Kevin Kilner (Raising Helen, Home Alone 3), with Marissa Ghavami (The Gift of Christmas) and Lauren Sowa (Terrifier 3) supporting. Produced by Marissa Ghavami (Mass), Lauren Sowa (HBO’s Marisol) and Lea DeLaria (The Lesbian Bar Project).
Festivals and Awards: Stay tuned!
Impact Campaign: An educational workshop and impact campaign is being built around this film, focused on complex trauma.
The Big bad - 2026 | play | Producer
Logline: The Big Bad begins after Ash, the youngest of three adult foster siblings, has a mental health crisis and their family reunites in the Queens row house that shaped them all. As Ash uses their background in video game building to mire through layers of memory and myth, a battle ensues to overcome their soul-family’s unresolved wounds. The Big Bad explores intergenerational trauma, deprogramming and the supernatural - and asks the timely question, “What drives us to keep moving through despair?”
Team: Directed by Mack Brown (Ars Nova Artist in Residence, Roundabout Directing Fellow and Lead Facilitator of the Roundabout Directors Group). Written by Ren Dara Santiago (Lanford Wilson Award-winner and staff writer for Showtime’s Let The Right One In). Starring Mahalet Dejene (New Amsterdam), Felipe Jorge (Unconditionally), Marissa Ghavami (The Gift of Christmas), Cassidy Layton (Severance) and Lauren Sowa (Terrifier 3). Produced by Marissa Ghavami (Mass) and Cassidy Layton (The A Train Anthology), a co-production by Healing TREE and Divine Riot.
Impact Campaign: Free tickets will be provided for youth in the NYC foster system, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ youth and youth struggling with mental illness. Post-show talk backs with mental health professionals, specializing in cultic abuse and coercion as well as complex trauma, will be hosted after select performances, and we will connect our audiences with resources for healing.