Lady & Bird Films is a Los Angeles and London based production company founded in 2018 by Jennifer Tiexiera, Rita Baghdadi and Camilla Hall. We are focused on premium, cinematic documentaries that showcase unique perspectives through powerful, ethical storytelling.
We have directed and produced films and doc series with:
NETFLIX, HBO / MAX, AMAZON, NAT GEO / DISNEY+, DISCOVERY+, PBS, VOX, TIME STUDIOS, XTR, FREMANTLE, SKY STUDIOS
JENNIFER TIEXIERA is an award winning documentary director, producer and editor and one of the co-founders of Lady & Bird. Most recently, she directed P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE – a film that begins with the impossible discovery of a box of letters that date back to the early 1950’s and reveal an untold and secret history of New York’s LGBT community. P.S. was slated to make its debut at the 2020 TriBeCa Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature at the 2020 Outfest Film Festival. In 2019, she wrote and edited 17 BLOCKS – a documentary directed by Davy Rothbart and spanning over 20 years as it intimately follows the lives of a Washington DC family deeply affected by gun violence. 17 Blocks made its debut at the 2019 TriBeCa Film Festival where she was awarded Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film. In 2017, she both produced and edited the documentaries, SUITABLE GIRL, winner of the Albert Maysles Award at the TriBeCa Film Festival and WAITING FOR HASSANA, official selection of the Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto Film Festivals. Jen is a proud member of the Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the Documentary Producers Alliance, the International Documentary Association, LatinX Directors, Women in Film and Film Fatales and is currently in post-production directing her next documentary feature, SUBJECT.
CAMILLA HALL is a documentary film director known for her Tribeca hit COPWATCH (2017) her Storyville/Arte feature GARENNE (2021) and SUBJECT which she co-directed with Jen Tiexiera and which was nominated for Best Documentary at Tribeca in 2022. She directed two episodes of KINGDOM OF DREAMS, a new series on the rise of the luxury business for Misfits Entertainment, Sky & HBO Max airing in late 2022. She produced the Emmy-nominated CIRCUS OF BOOKS now on Netflix and our very own Rita Baghdadi’s film SIRENS. She is an Executive Producer on BLACK BARBIE: A DOCUMENTARY. She is focused on character-driven stories that have societal value and enjoys finding the universal message in unexpected stories. She has filmed all over the United States, U.K, India, Tunisia, and Turkey. She is represented by Stern & Wild.
Rita Baghdadi is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker known for the intimacy of her bold, character-driven films. SIRENS premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. The film was praised as “utterly charming,” “smartly crafted” and “a bold rebellion.” Executive Produced by Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph, the film was acquired by Oscilloscope for theatrical release across the U.S. and is now available on VOD. Recently, Rita’s film STALLIONS was awarded grants from Chicken & Egg Films and Catapult Film Fund. Rita is a 2024 Concordia Fellow, a 2023 Sundance Momentum Fellow and DOC NYC's ‘40 under 40’ class of 2022. Her latest film, FINDING THE LIGHT, premiered on Disney+ in March 2024. She is currently in development and production on several new films and series.
CONTACT
Representation:
mpisacane@wmeagency.com
hhashemi@wmeagency.com
*We do not accept unsolicited submissions.