Production Program

Keep/Delete

• Writer/Director: Kryzz Gautier
• Producer: Corsica Wilson
• Producer: Maya Butler

Kryzz Gautier, Writer/Director
Kryzz Gautier is a queer, Afro-Latina writer/director born and raised in the Dominican Republic. Since transitioning from undocumented to permanent resident, she’s been a writer on HBO’s Gordita Chronicles, is a writer/creative consultant on the upcoming installment of 2K Games’ acclaimed franchise Bioshock, and her feature debut Wheels Come Off landed on the 2021 Black List. The last is being produced by Julie Oh at OhCo. She’s sold multiple shows and features to studios, some of which have her attached as director. Gautier has been a fellow in prestigious programs like NBC’s “Female Forward” for scripted TV directors, Ryan Murphy’s “Half Initiative,” Joey Soloway’s “Disruptors,” Sundance Institute, The Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship, and the DGA, among others. Her work has screened at multiple Academy Award, BAFTA, and Canadian Screen Award qualifying festivals. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Directing Narrative Fiction from Emerson.

Corsica Wilson, Producer
Corsica Wilson was born in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on the small island of Terceira into a Navy family. Growing up, she moved every two years until finally settling in Los Angeles in 2010 where she has been involved in all aspects of storytelling, from acting and writing to producing, with a love for historical fiction and the surreal. Credits include In A World… (Sundance), Sound of Violence (SXSW), Dead Season (SyFy), Hashtaggers (E! Network), Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman (History Channel), and L.A. Macabre (Amazon Prime). She is the co-founder of Lonely Child Productions which just completed production on their second short film, Maize, marking Corsica’s directorial debut.

Maya Butler, Producer
Maya Butler is an Israeli-English actress/producer and co-founder of Lonely Child Productions. After acting for a while, Butler found herself pulled towards producing as well due to her love for bringing creatives together. While she started out with commercials, she quickly realized film was where her passion lay and put her attention on producing female-led narrative projects. Her portfolio of work includes a range of genres—from westerns to sci-fi, and everything in between—but the common theme is that all her projects elevate the female voice. This has become Butler’s passion and continues to be her motivation when looking for projects to bring to life. Some of her notable credits include CBS’s NCIS, CW’s Dynasty, and Paramount’s The Offer, which recently came out starring Miles Teller and Juno Temple.

River Man

• Writer/Director: Laura Beckner
• Consulting Producer: Jesy Odio
• Producer: Jeremy Boros
• Producer: Kacie McManus

Laura Becker, Writer/Director
Laura Beckner is an actress and filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles. Her short films (le) Rebound and Willing to go there have won awards, screened at top festivals across the U.S. and Europe, and are curated online at Vimeo Staff Picks and Short of the Week. Her screenplays have been official selections at The Austin Film Festival, The Female Eye Film Festival, and The Canadian Film Centre Development Lab. Laura is a recipient of the 2020 WIF Production Program grant as a writer/director. She is a graduate of the USC School of Theater BFA Conservatory and can be seen acting on the critically acclaimed Netflix series Unorthodox.

Jesy Odio, Consulting Producer
Jesy Odio is an independent film producer from Costa Rica. Her feature Every Day in Kaimuki premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. She is also a 2021 Sundance Producers Intensive Fellow. Odio has been part of critically acclaimed films such as Black Bear (Sundance 2020) and Aviva (SXSW 2020). She also helmed the feature-length adaptation of Tao Lin’s breakout novel Taipei, which was released domestically with Showtime and worldwide through 20th Century Fox International. In 2017, Odio founded her production company, TEENAGER, which has produced numerous music videos for Megan Thee Stallion, Weezer, Common, Kali Uchis, Icona Pop, and Tegan & Sara, to name a few.

Jeremy Boros, Producer
Jeremy Boros is a producer and actor committed to supporting trailblazing creators in realizing their unique visions. He has experience working in narrative film, animation, digital, documentary, podcasting, theater, and virtual production. His film projects have been shortlisted for the BAFTAs and have played at Oscar-qualifying festivals across the U.S. and Europe. Boros has worked with A-list actors, casting directors, and several production companies including Big Beach, Good Banana / 1:26, and Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope. He is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program.

Kacie McManus, Producer
Kacie McManus is a producer working in documentary, commercial, episodic, and narrative film. She honed her production skills on feature films and series like Big Little Lies, NCIS: Los Angeles, and the Emmy award-winning Variety Studio: Actors on Actors. For the past three years she has been producing Brother From Another, a true-crime documentary series alongside Smokehouse Pictures. She also recently produced an environmental documentary series for PBS titled Off the Beaten Path. McManus focuses on bringing stories to life that speak to her on a personal level and collaborating on media that moves audiences in a powerful way.