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Our Creative Team

  • Jake Casey

    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

    Dazey Phase Productions

  • Clarinda D'Cruze

    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

  • Ava Davis

    LEAD ACTRESS | WRITER

    Ava Davis, A Sundance Fellow and also known as the Duchess of Grant Park, is a trans actress, producer, and writer living in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also an advocate for increasing trans and queer representation, especially that of black and other minorities. She founded her production company, Studio Vosges. She graduated from the University of Georgia where she studied comparative literature, dramatic writing, art history, and film.

  • Hillary R. Heath

    DIRECTOR

    Hillary R. Heath is an Atlanta native and a graduate of Oglethorpe University where she studied Theatre, Art, and English

  • Abijeet Achar

    CINEMATOGRAPHER

    Born and raised in Durban, South Africa, Abijeet Achar is an Emmy award winning cinematographer and director of Indian and Mauritian descent. After graduating from Emerson College with an MFA in Cinematography, Abijeet co-founded Pineapple Cut Pictures as an outlet for his creative and commercial projects.

  • Madison Hatfield

    PRODUCER

    MADISON HATFIELD (she/her) is a writer, actor, and filmmaker based in Atlanta, GA. Her debut feature film Pageant Material, co-written with her collaborator and Peach Jam Pictures co-founder Jono Mitchell, was an official selection of the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival. Their award-winning follow-up short Jenna Gets An Abortion, in which Madison also stars, premiered online in the spring of 2020. In 2021 she co-wrote, produced, and acted in the feature films Miles From Nowhere and Courtney Gets Possessed (which she also co-directed). She also wrote and produced three shorts: Making a Scene, Thirty Candles, and lastly Post-Citrus, her solo directorial debut.

  • Crystal Jin Kim

    PRODUCTION DESIGNER

    Crystal is a Korean American artist and award-winning filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia. She is a 2020-2022 Artist-in-Studio Fellow with The Creatives Project.

    Crystal graduated from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in June 2014 with two Bachelor of Arts degrees, one in Radio/Television/Film and the other in Art Theory and Practice. Her short films, "Jinju" (2015), "죽어도 (Jookuhdo)" (2017), "Young Won Han Bok" (2019), and "Dated" (2019) have screened at numerous film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. These include the Atlanta Film Festival, Seoul International Youth Film Festival, CAAMFest, and National Film Festival for Talented Youth.

    Her arts practice also includes drawing, ceramics, mixed media, mother-of-pearl inlay, painting, installations, and digital manipulation.

  • Nicole Kemper

    POST PRODUCTION | EDITOR

    Nicole is a writer/actor/director/editor based out of Atlanta, Georgia. She completed her MFA program in writing and directing from Columbia College Chicago in 2010. Since co-founding Critical Crop Top Media in 2016, Nicole has written, directed, and performed in films like 80s Dating Video Remix, War on Christmas, The Mother Load Web Series, and in Critical Crop Top’s live sketch comedy shows.

    Her films have screened at Atlanta ShortsFest, Terminus Conference + Film Festival, NewFilmmakers New York, Chattanooga Film Festival, Macon Film Festival, Ya’llywood Film Festival, and the New Mavericks Film Series. She now serves as executive producer for Critical Crop Top Media which continues to produce films, series, and podcasts.

    When not hustling to get her next project off the ground, she teaches editing at The Georgia Film Academy and works as a casting director for Launch Light Films. Most recently she wrote, starred, and edited the short film, Could This Have Been An Email.

  • Ava Davis

    CLAIRE

  • Spencer Mumford

    DAVE

  • Nikki Garza

    ANNALISE

  • Skye Passmore

    JUSTIN

  • Carlette Jennings

    CHRISTIE

  • Brian Ashton Smith

    AUSTIN