Proven Success

Jill is an award-winning Los Angeles producer/writer/actor dedicated to creating opportunities for underrepresented filmmakers. She also really loves cats, poker, and traveling the world with her amazing wife.

Her viral hit We’re Getting Nowhere, regarded by the press as “the video blog that started it all” for LGBTQ new media, led to a development deal with Viacom and a string of roles in television and film. In addition to serving on the Screen Actor’s Guild LGBTQ National Board, she has spoken on LGBTQ media issues in over two dozen cities worldwide, including on the mainstages at San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Munich Gay Pride.

Jill Bennett: Program Director

Her producing experience ranges from charity events to live specials, theatre, radio, new media, and film. She has produced three award-winning micro-budget projects that played in the international film festival circuit and went on to acquire worldwide distribution.

Jill’s comedy series Second Shot won picture of the year at London’s LFest. She won two Audience Choice Awards at Logo's NewNowNext Awards, and three Curve Magazine Awards for her two-season ensemble comedy We Have to Stop Now. Her most recent feature, Under the Influencer, has taken home best feature at four festivals in 2024 and continues its run in 2025.

Keisha Zollar: Creative Producer & Director

Her acting credits include Orange is the New Black, Women Who Kill, Comedy Central’s Snapchat Series, Nightcap on PopTV, Middle of the Night, The Today Show, CollegeHumor, TVLand, Funny or Die, IAF.tv, Above Average, MSNBC, MTV, UCBComedy, and HBO’s Divorce starring Sarah Jessica Parker.

She is an alumni of the Writer’s Guild of America’s Showrunner Program, and a recipient of the Inevitable Foundation’s Caring Across Generations Award. She co-hosts a podcast with her husband Andrew Kimler – Applying It Liberally - that can be found on iTunes.

Keisha Zollar is a disabled comedian, writer, showrunner, and Sundance fellow. She is a founding member of Upright Citizen Brigade Theatre's first all-black team Astronomy Club and was co-head writer for the group's Netflix series Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show.

She worked on Hulu's limited Mike Tyson series Mike, Young Love (adapted from the Oscar winning short, Hair Love), two seasons of the Spitting Image reboot for BritBox, and Netflix's animated series Agent Elvis. Zollar was on the writing staff of Busy Tonight, and The Opposition with Jordan Klepper. Currently, she voices Susan Shephard on the second and third season of Stephen Colbert Presents: Tooning Out The News on Comedy Central.

Lauren Neal is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker, data scientist, and AI/ML engineer. She is a graduate of Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies and the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science, where she studied applications of machine learning to filmmaking.

Lauren was nominated for Best Lead Actress at IFF London for her work in The Lovely Rejects, which she also co-produced. Her acting credits include Westworld, FOX’s unaired pilot Delirium, and indie feature The Sympathy Card. Lauren won Best Guest Actor (Comedy) at the Hollyweb Festival for her turn in the web series Those With Class.

Notoriously obsessed with the discipline of acting, Lauren is the resident data scientist at Castability, a start-up devoted to providing actors with actionable feedback and quantitative analysis of their work.

Lauren has edited, produced, and directed for several political campaigns. She also won the Hyundai Emerging Director Award at Outfest Fusion 2020–Hyundai then enlisted Lauren to direct a commercial that aired during the GLAAD Awards, OutFronts, and Outfest LA. In 2023, Lauren was named a Commercial Directors Diversity Program semifinalist. Her work often interfaces directly with nascent technologies and mental health matters: where neural networks meet neurodivergence meets NeRFs.

A graduate of Warner Bros. Discovery’s inaugural VFX Coordinator training program and current employee of Ingenuity Studios / Ghost VFX, Lauren is editing two documentary projects and has been tapped by Story Mill Entertainment to direct the forthcoming romantic comedy Ex Life.

Lauren Neal: Post Producer & Director

Rachael Hasting Adair: Technical Advisor

A true technical Swiss Army knife on set, Rachael has worked in the camera departments and grip/electric departments for Hallmark Channel, Travel Channel, Netflix, Yahoo, HGTV, Firefox, Disney Channel, Facebook TV, All BLK network, Adidas, Speedo, Hydroflask, Qualcomm, Intel, United, Chase, Blue Shield, amongst many others.

After film school, she focused on cinematography, spending 15 years as a Producer/Shooter worldwide for non-profits, and was recently selected for the ASC Vision Mentorship program with legendary cinematography mentor Polly Morgan.