TEAM
Jaime Saginor (Producer/Writer/ "Alex") is an LA writer originally hailing from the backwoods of New Hampshire. Her slate of mostly psychological thrillers and dramas are often stories with revenge or redemption elements, and feature female forward, diverse characters grappling with deep emotional lives and relationships.
She started in the theater, got her BFA at the University of Michigan, studied and performed in and around NYC, and then co-founded a theater company in Seattle before moving to LA to pursue film and tv.
Her award-winning shorts, which she wrote, produced and starred in, have screened in numerous festivals, and her screenplays have placed in many prestigious competitions, including Austin, Screencraft, and BlueCat. Her thriller feature, BLACK CREEK TRAIL was a finalist in the LA-based WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Contest.
ErinRose Widner (Producer) is of Honduran descent and spent her summers growing up visiting family, which gave her a deep appreciation of different cultures, and how they can shape the way we experience and tell stories.
As a producer, writer, and director, her work has premiered and placed at dozens of festivals including Austin Film Festival, Method Fest, Dances With Films, Cinestory, LA Comedy Shorts Fest, Hollyweb Fest, and Marseille Web Fest. Her recent comedy series about board gamers Meeple People, which stars Josh Sussman (Mr. Mayor, Glee), Elisha Yaffe (Better Call Saul), and Natalie Palamides (Nate - produced by Amy Poehler), was featured at multiple festivals and Cons including Strategicon, OrcCon and League of Geeks Recon.
She is an active member of The Sundance Institute, Film Independent, Women In Film, and ETC (Entertainment Technology Center) at USC.
Soma Helmi (Director), born to an Indonesian father and a Polish mother, hails from Bali and directed all 20 episodes of Season 3 of Snapchat‘s original series The Dead Girls Detective Agency, produced by Keshet Media and Insurrection Media. She worked frequently with Catherine Hardwicke as a creative consultant. Soma most recently consulted for Ms. Hardwicke on her feature Mafia Mamma (2022) for Bleecker Street and as a creative consultant on her Quibi Series Don’t Look Deeper. Soma’s work has screened at Sundance, Hollyshorts, Outfestand Amazon’s New Voices Film Festival among many others.
Soma began her career working as an Art Director for J. Walter Thompson in Jakarta, where her clients were Unilever and Pfizer. She would go on to direct commercial spots for Google, Klondike, Nike, Chevrolet, and Campbell’s.
She is a 2021 Paramount Viewfinder Directors Program fellow and was named one of the “8 directors to watch” by Alliance of Women Directors. Soma is on the 2021 CAPE List x Blacklist and created Blackmagic Collective’s Breakthrough Initiative for BIPOC TV writers and directors.
Jayson Crothers (Cinematography) began his career shooting approximately two dozen independent features before joining the NBC Universal hit show Chicago Fire in 2013. After serving as the 2nd unit DoP for 38 episodes during seasons 2 & 3 he was asked to helm the show. Serving as the sole DoP from seasons 4 to 6, he shot 74 episodes of the series for Dick Wolf. He also did additional photography for the backdoor pilot of Chicago Med. He's currently DoP on Season 2 of Cruel Summer.
In 2019 Jayson photographed three features - the World War 2 true story drama Axis Sally, directed by Michael Polish, starring Al Pacino and Mitch Pileggi, the romantic comedy The Thing About Harry, directed by Peter Paige, and the hurricane action film Force of Nature, also directed by Michael Polish, starring Mel Gibson, Emile Hirsch and Kate Bosworth. In between these films he also shot additional photography for the Starz series P- Valley as well as 2nd Unit for the Netflix feature Malibu Rescue - The Next Wave.
In addition to his work being seen theatrically and on television, it’s also been seen across the festival circuit at SXSW, Tribeca and Camerimage to name a few. Jayson also served as the Technical Editor for the acclaimed book on cinematography and lighting, A Shot In The Dark.
Joanne Rubino (Feature Development, Producer)
is a creative, development, and production force and an Emmy-nominated producer of highly acclaimed biopics, scripted series, and documentaries including Brando, Hatfields & McCoys miniseries, Surviving Compton, and Sun Records, to name a few. Today, as the founder of Be Brave Media, Joanne is sought out to develop true-story film and series concepts into viable production projects—Slinky being the first of many on Be Brave Media’s growing slate. Since partnering with producers Paul Allen and Darla Marasco, the company is moving at breakneck speed, garnering the rights to iconic IP, fostering amazing true stories, and developing and partnering with other like-minded producers to serve the projects and the creators they support. With multiple projects in the works across all genres and platforms, there is no stopping this unstoppable team.
David Clark (Feature Development, Producer)
is a film and television executive turned manager and producer. Having previously run development for various award-winning producers and companies where he was involved in bringing to life numerous critically acclaimed film and television projects, David has worked with many of the biggest names in Entertainment. In 2018, David used his two decades of experience to launch Mazo Partners, a boutique management and production company which prides itself in discovering and developing up-and-coming writers and directors as well as collaborating with established talent to further advance their careers and projects. Mazo Partners' first production was the award winning ABC limited series WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT for ABC and Hulu, which David Executive Produced with Will Smith and Jay Z. On the management side, Mazo's past and present clients have created, written for, and/or directed some of the most entertaining and commercially successful TV and film projects such as FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, TULSA KING, KUNG FU PANDA, HAWAII 5-0, THE GOOD WIFE, SCRAMBLED, SNIPER: GRIT, and many more.