Women of The Vault will share their intimate stories about overcoming impossible obstacles, stepping into their power and achieving extraordinary success by identifying their passions, defining their strengths and rejecting cultural/societal limitations of what it means to be a woman in the Entertainment Industry, Technology, Food/Hospitality and Finance.
The Vault was founded in 2012 by Kim Moses as an organization that celebrates women — giving each woman a safe place to use her voice as she impacts the world in unique and brilliant ways.
Vault Members who will participate in the round table
(in alphabetical order):
Aiko Accame
(Los Angeles, CA; Italy)
Regional Sales and Private Clients Director, Dorchester Collection; Hospitality
Aiko Accame has recently celebrated her 21st anniversary with leading luxury hotel brand Dorchester Collection. Following an array of high-profile hospitality roles, she found her calling as associate director of sales at The Dorchester, before moving into her current position.
Based at The Beverly Hills Hotel, Aiko works closely with private clients and the West Coast travel and entertainment community, raising brand awareness, generating revenue for Dorchester Collection hotels worldwide, and cultivating partnerships and events with other luxury brands.
She successfully launched the industry-leading Dorchester Collection Diamond Club programme to the West Coast travel community. She has also been recognised by the Southern California American Society of Travel Agents as a Hotel Representative of the Year.
Her Italian/Japanese heritage gives her a unique insight into two of the best cuisines in world, a passion she’s always eager to share with her clients.
Gail Becker
(New York, NY)
Founder of CAULIPOWER; Food Entrepreneur
Gail is best known as an entrepreneur and the Founder of CAULIPOWER, the most disruptive company in the better-for-you frozen food space named as one of the top 10 World’s Most Innovative Food Companies in 2022 by Fast Company. The hyper-growth company reached more than $100m in revenue in less than four years under her leadership as CEO, capturing more than 2% of the $5 billion US pizza market. She has received recognition for her achievements from publications such as Forbes, Fast Company and Inc. and is a frequent media guest, sought out for her opinions on female leadership, healthy food trends and building great brands.
Her career path reflects her passions spanning journalism, government service and brand building. She has held senior positions in a myriad of industries and organizations including Edelman, Warner Bros. and the US Department of Health & Human Services.
As the mother of two sons diagnosed with celiac disease at an early age, Gail was disappointed with the gluten-free options lacking in nutrition and taste. Frustrated by the lack of action by the “big food” companies, Gail decided to solve the problem herself. She left corporate America behind with no regrets and launched CAULIPOWER in 2017 with a mission to reinvent America’s favorite comfort foods to be tasty, convenient and nutritious.
Gail’s idea was initially rejected by manufacturers and the investor community, but she ignored them all and proved them wrong.
CAULIPOWER is recognized as the true disruptor of what was one of grocery’s most stagnant categories, Within its’ first two years, CAULIPOWER became a top 10 frozen pizza brand and captured more than 2% of the $5 billion US pizza market.
,p>CAULIPOWER did not stop at pizza; the brand has entered a myriad of new frozen food categories including chicken tenders, nuggets and now pizza bites. Today CAULIPOWER is the #1 Cauliflower Crust Pizza, #1 Gluten-Free Pizza. #1 Better-For-You pizza and is available in more than 30,000 stores and 5,000 restaurants nationwide.
Gail has been widely recognized for her contributions to business and entrepreneurship including 50 over 50 (Forbes); Woman Business Owner of the Year (National Association of Women Business Owners); Trailblazer Working Mother of the Year (She Runs It); Entrepreneur of the Year (Ernst & Young); Person of the Year (NOSH Best of Awards); Entrepreneur of the Year (Stevie Awards) Executive of the Year (Best in Biz). CAULIPOWER was also named one of the 100 Best Led Companies in America (Inc.) under her leadership.
On October 13th, 2021, CAULIPOWER hit the height of popular culture when the company (and Gail) were featured in a question on the television show Jeopardy!
Brooke Breton
(Los Angeles, CA)
Senior Producer/Executive Producer/Expert on Modern Film Making Techniques; Hollywood; Governor at the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences; Film/TV
Brooke Breton has been principally involved in a wide variety of prominent live action films, animated films, television series and theme park projects which have received Academy, BAFTA, Emmy, Annie and VES awards and nominations. Key projects include: Avatar, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow, Solaris, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Dick Tracy.
Ms. Breton has also served as a producer for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum, where she focused on modern filmmaking techniques and acquisitions.
Prior to that, Ms. Breton was a Senior Production Executive and in-house producer for Illumination Entertainment where she produced the film content for the Despicable Me theme park attraction, Minion Mayhem, for Universal. The attraction was awarded an Annie Award for “Best Animated Special Venue Production” as well as a VES award for “Best Visual Effects for a Theme Park Attraction.”
Ms. Breton was instrumental in launching James Cameron’s effects house Digital Domain, where she served as Senior Vice President of Production for several years. During Breton’s tenure, Digital Domain created the effects for such blockbusters as True Lies, Interview with a Vampire, and Apollo 13. They also created the theme park attraction Terminator 2 – 3D. Breton was also very involved in the start-up of DreamWorks Animation in addition to producing DreamWorks Pictures’ animated comedy adventure, The Road to El Dorado, which received eight Annie Award nominations.
Ms. Breton is a Visual Effects Branch governor for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and currently serves as VP on the Academy Foundation Board. She also serves on the AMPAS Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee and the Science and Technology Council. Breton is a long-standing member of the Producers Guild of America and has served as a three-term board of director member of the Visual Effects Society.
Ms. Breton recently helped create an exhibit at the Academy Museum featuring the innovations of the Dykstraflex camera system and wrote, produced, and directed an AMPAS member program on AI. She was also the creative director and producer of the Sci-Tech Council’s public program: Virtual Production: Are you Game? and was creative director of the public program: Galactic Innovations: Star Wars and Rogue One, 40 years of Pioneering Cinematics.
In current development under the Breton Productions banner are three feature film projects.
Kim Campbell
(Florence)
19th Prime Minister of Canada
After holding elected office at all three levels of Canadian government, Kim Campbell served as Canada’s nineteenth and first female Prime Minister in 1993.
Kim Campbell is a founding member of the Club of Madrid now the largest international forum of former heads of government and state who work to promote democratic values. She is also a member and Chair Emerita of theCouncil of Women World Leaders and a member of the International Women’s Forum, where she served as its global president.
Ms. Campbell’s most notable achievement in recent years has been the design and launch of a ground breaking leadership program for undergraduates at the University of Alberta:The Peter Lougheed Leadership College. She served as its Founding Principal from 2014-2018.
In 2021, Ms. Campbell joined the board of the Glen Gould Foundation and the advisory board of The Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute. VACI is a project of The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR), which was created during Ms. Campbell’s tenure as Minister of Justice.
Sara Christensen
(New York, NY)
Angel Investor/Advisor; Finance/Entrepreneurs
SARA R. CHRISTENSEN is an active angel investor, advisor and board member mainly focused on early stage, female founded consumer companies. Miss Christensen’s experience spans over 20 years working in both venture capital and family offices, investing in over 200 companies across tech, media, sports and consumer products. Prior to becoming an investor, Miss Christensen was a partner in the first all organic fresh pressed juice company which launched in NYC in 2000. Prior to that, Miss Christensen started her career in marketing compiling consumer insights, which helped hone her skills for studying consumer behavior and trend forecasting. She is currently based in New York.
Kay Kramer
(Los Angeles, CA)
Founder of Step-Up; Entrepreneur/Leadership Coach
Kaye Kramer is a dynamic entrepreneur, founder, senior executive, non-profit board member, and certified coach specializing in leadership, executive strategy, and career transitions. Her career story is distinguished by her ability to successfully transition between industries and leadership roles across the corporate, start-up, and non-profit sectors, where she has consistently fostered organizational growth and generated new business opportunities.
Kaye has held a variety of prominent roles, including talent agent at UTA (United Talent Agency), where she represented stars like Renee Zellweger; executive at Interscope Films, and Executive Vice President at Nielson Entertainment where she launched their film online testing division. Her entrepreneurial ventures include serving as COO of The Babybox Co., facilitating the company’s evolution from a social initiative to a venture-backed growth start-up, and co-founding Nursery works, a manufacturing firm specializing in design-savvy children’s furniture and accessories. Kaye expanded Nurseryworks into 300+ stores in 8 countries within 6 years, before selling it to Million Dollar Baby in 2010.
Kaye’s proudest achievement is founding the philanthropic network, Step Up, (www.suwn.org) in 1998. Over the past 25 years, Step Up has become a premier national mentorship nonprofit, empowering young women aged 14-29 to define and achieve their unique visions of success, As founder and CEO, Kaye has led the organization’s strategic direction, fundraising efforts, and the development and implementation of educational programming through strategic marketing, and corporate alliances with companies such as Mattel, Conde Nast, Lifetime, Coach, The Container Store, Dove, Ulta, Frame Denim and many more.
In addition to her ongoing role with Step Up, Kaye is a member of the President’s Council at Tufts University, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree. She received her executive coaching certification from Columbia University, and holds certifications in Hogan Assessment, DISC, and NBI. Additionally, Kaye is a member of the International Coaching Federation.
Kaye’s commitment to philanthropy is reflected in her board service. In addition to Step Up, she has served on the boards of PHASE ONE Cancer Foundation, The Women’s Guild at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, and The Board of Directors at Oakwood, a K-12 independent Los Angeles school.
Debbie Liebling
(Los Angeles, CA)Film and TV Producer; Programming Executive; Hollywood
Deborah Liebling is a veteran and film and television producer and influential programming executive. She just completed production on CARVED, a horror comedy film that will premiere on Hulu in October 2024. She also just executive produced TV comedy pilot BUFFALO TENS, a new series for Fox. Also, now out on streaming is the film, JULES, starring Sir Ben Kingsley, which won the Audience Award at the 2023 Sonoma Film Festival and the 2024 Humanitas Prize for Comedy Feature Film, and Columbia Pictures’ film, 65, starring Adam Driver. She is Executive Producer of Emmy-nominated Hulu series, PEN15.
In television, Deborah is executive producing MAKING FRIENDS, a new comedy series developed for Netflix AU; CAMP NADA HALA, an animated comedy set up at Nickelodeon; OONA AND THE EGG, a comedy with Sundance-award winning Maryam Keshavarz set to direct; and the dark limited series, SHARK, written by Dave Flebotte, to be directed by Reed Morano, which she is partnered with Terence Winter; and RUDIMENTAL, an AI drama set up at wiip. Additionally, Deborah is executive producing a limited drama series with Daniela Lavender and Sir Ben Kingsley and a new high-concept comedy, TRASHED, with Cinetic Media.
On the feature side, Deborah is currently in pre-production as the Producer of TREES & P.H.D.’S, starring Sosie Bacon and Tig Notaro, written and to be directed by Stephanie Allynne; IKEAVILLE, starring Kit Harington, Maya Erskine, Ke Huy Quan, Kate McKinnon and Maude Apatow, written and to be directed by Michael Vukadinovich; and OLD PALS, starring Henry Winkler and Brian Cox, written by Rick Cisario and to be directed by Wendey Stanzler. She is also attached to produce GOOD MORNING, PLEASE, written and produced by Josh Gad, with Shawn Snyder set to direct.
In 2021, Deborah produced JANE, starring Madelaine Petsch, Chloe Bailey and Melissa Leo and UNPLUGGING, a romantic comedy starring Eva Longoria and Matt Walsh. Her film PLUS ONE, starring Maya Erskine and Jack Quaid, won the Audience Award at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and continues to stream on Hulu.
Deborah is attached to produce the following features: HOT MESS, written by Gabrielle D’Amico and to be directed by Katie Locke O’Brien; LOVE, MARIE TANNER, written by Kirsten King and to be directed by Sabrina Jaglom; GIRL ALIEN, starring Billie Lourd, written and to be directed by Cat Grieve; LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK (based on the best-selling novel) at Shivhans Pictures, adapted by Karen Croner; and STONERS AND SELF-APPOINTED SAINTS, written and to be directed by Andrea Siegel (based on the book of poems), starring Matt Berry, Dylan Gelula, Molly Parker, Ricky Velez, Miles Robbins, and Devon Bostick. Deborah is also Executive Producer on a new animated feature for Sony Pictures Animation.
Deborah partnered with renowned film director Sam Raimi, under their POD 3 banner with a first-look deal at WIIP, where they are developing the series THE HOUSE ON HOARDER HILL, by John Glenn, Kelly Ngai, and Mikki Lish, with Rebecca Thomas attached to direct. Together they produced a horror anthology series, 50 STATES OF FRIGHT, which premiered on Quibi. Additionally, the pair teamed up with British writing duo The Stas Brothers and set up crime-thriller, SUNSET YELLOW, at Endeavor Content.
Previously, Deborah was President of Red Hour Films where she and her partner, Ben Stiller, produced four new television series: Comedy Central’s ANOTHER PERIOD (3 seasons), the critically acclaimed BIG TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA, and THE MELTDOWN WITH JONAH AND KUMAIL (3 seasons), and IFC’s THE BIRTHDAY BOYS (2 seasons), which she executive produced with Bob Odenkirk.
Deborah was President of Production at Universal Pictures where she oversaw the development and production of many hit films including BRIDESMAIDS, THE CHANGE-UP, PITCH PERFECT, TOWER HEIST, AMERICAN PIE 2, CONTRABAND, SAFE HOUSE, TED, and WANDERLUST.
In 2009, Deborah served as President of FOX Atomic Pictures, a start-up genre division of 20th Century FOX film studio that released JENNIFER’S BODY, I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER, and THE ROCKER. As Executive Vice President of Features at 20th Century Fox, Deborah was responsible for the hits BORAT, DODGEBALL, JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE, BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE, IDIOCRACY, STUCK ON YOU, and many other successful films.
Deborah was the chief development and production executive (Head of Original Programming) for Comedy Central for the previous 7 years. There she was solely responsible for the development and realization of the cultural phenomenon SOUTH PARK (where she was Executive Producer on the multiple Emmy-award winning series, as well as Producer on the film SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT), THE MAN SHOW (starring Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla), WIN BEN STEIN’S MONEY, BATTLEBOTS, PRIMETIME GLICK (with Martin Short) and many other original series on the channel. Prior to that, Deborah produced multiple series for HBO, NBC and ABC. She began her career as a producer at MTV in New York in the 80s, when MTV was cool.
Deborah is a graduate of Boston University, College of Communications where she was asked to come back and deliver the Commencement Speech in 2010 and received a Distinguished Alumni Award.
Deborah served on the board of Women In Film for 8 years and serves as an ambassador for Reframe, an organization that works to promote women in key roles behind the camera. Deborah is a proud member of the Producers Guild of America, the Television Academy, and Producers United, a recently formed organization of successful film and TV producers to create new dialogue around the role and rights of the career producer. She serves on the Screen Producers Australia (SPA)’s SCREEN FOREVER programming advisory board, the advisory board of The Harold Ramis Film School in Chicago, IL, and IOCUS (an LA-based film fund that invests, develops, produces and sells content in film, television & new media).
Ali McCartney
(New York, NY)
Managing Director with UBS Private Wealth Management
Alli McCartney is a Managing Director with UBS Private Wealth Management in New York City. She has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry working with families, endowments and foundations to streamline their financial, investment, trust and estate and philanthropic planning. Alli specializes in executive compensation working with founders and C-suite executives around complex liquidity situations. She is known by the moniker “Financial Feminist” for her passionate work around women and money & the imperative of women having a financial seat at all tables. She is a regular on CNBC & Fox Business, is frequently published and is a sought after speaker at industry conferences given her unique ability to make finance and macro-economics accessible. Alli lives between Soho in NYC, Montauk & LA with her two boys, is bi-lingual (Spanish) and spends her time obsessively following live music and supporting The Jazz Foundation of America & Vital Voices.
Catherine McCord
(Los Angeles, CA)
Founder of Weelicious/cookbook author/TV presenter/food & tech
Catherine McCord is the founder of the popular Weelicious brand, a trusted content resource synonymous with family, food and lifestyle. A graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education, she has created online how-to videos that have amassed more than fifty million views and celebrities like Jennifer Garner, Sarah Michelle Gellar & Keri Glassman, RD, swear by her food as a medicine approach to healthy meals.
Catherine has written four cookbooks including her latest Meal Prep Magic and the Smoothie Project. Catherine has appeared on TODAY, Good Morning America, California Live, The Doctors, and is a regular on the Emmy-winning NBC show Naturally, Danny Seo as well as Food Network’s #1-rated Guy’s Grocery Games. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.
Recent brand partnerships: Amazon, Williams Sonoma, Whole Foods Market, LOMI, Yasso, Nature’s Made and Dietz and Watson.
Catherine co-founded family focused meal company, One Potato, and exited in 2023.
Kim Moses
(Los Angeles, CA)
Founder of The Vault; Co-Founder of OptIn Studios; Executive Producer/Director; Hollywood
KIM MOSES is the proud Founder of THE VAULT — an organization that gives women a safe place to use their voices while impacting the world in unique and brilliant ways.
Kim Moses is also an Executive Producer who has produced more than 700 hours of premium scripted content on traditional and non-traditional platforms and is a DGA Director. Creatively, fiscally and technically, Kim has managed well-over a half a billion dollars in development and production all over the world — delivering on time and on budget while hitting creative bullseyes (including GONE, RECKLESS, THIS IS EVERYTHING: GI GI GORGEOUS and GHOST WHISPERER which are all currently streaming.) As an innovator in the Entertainment Industry, Kim has achieved a series of ‘firsts’: NBC International’s first domestic-based straight-to-series drama with international partners; YouTube’s first feature film; American TV’s first Turkish format remake; Marriott Hotel’s first international feature film and created network TV’s first interactive digital experience embedded in a scripted drama series. Kim pioneered the Total Engagement Experience(c) — the strategic brand build-out on all platforms of series, feature films and products, creating new revenue streams, and exponentially increasing engagement loyalty. Before crossing over to scripted content, Kim worked in live broadcast sports productions, reality series and music specials. As Co-Founder of OptIn Studios, SLAM Digital Media and Sander/Moses Productions, Kim was named to Newsweek’s Women and Leadership Advisory Committee, honored with a Women In Film Woman of the Year award, was the recipient of the 36th Annual Vision Award as well as the Elly Impact Award, and had the honor of giving the Commencement Speech for USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism Class in 2016. (Oprah gave the commencement speech the following year
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Keri Selig
(Los Angeles, CA)
Founder and President of Intuition Productions; Executive Producer; Hollywood
Keri Selig is a Golden Globe and 5-time Emmy nominated producer and the Founder and President of Intuition Productions, a feature film and television production company in Hollywood. Before Intuition, Keri spent over a decade as a studio Executive. She was Executive SVP of Production at Warner Bros based Bel-Air Entertainment (Collateral Damage, Pay It Forward). Before that, Keri was SVP of Production for Kopelson Entertainment at Twentieth Century Fox (Se7en, The Fugitive), and SVP of Production for Cort/Madden at Paramount Pictures (Save the Last Dance, Run Away Bride). Keri most recently executive produced the miniseries, After Camelot starring Katie Holmes and Matthew Perry, based on the acclaimed book by fifteen-time NY Times bestselling author, J. Randy Taraborrelli. It received 3 Canadian Screen nominations and a Canadian SAG award. Prior, Keri executive produced the miniseries, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe for Lifetime, also based on a book by J. Randy Taraborrelli. The miniseries stars Susan Sarandon & Emily Watson and received 17 nominations, including three Emmys. Keri’s additional credits include Passengers, starring Anne Hathaway for Sony Pictures; The Stepford Wives starring Nicole Kidman for Paramount; Point of Origin for HBO starring Ray Liotta and John Leguizamo; Harlan County, the Golden Globe and triple Emmy nominated movie for Showtime starring Holly Hunter; Three to Tango starring Matt Perry for Warner Brothers & Village Roadshow; and the award winning In The Company Of Spies for Showtime starring Tom Berenger, written by Roger Towne (The Natural) and directed by Tim Matheson (West Wing). Keri recently wrapped production for Netflix’s upcoming Six Triple Eight written and directed by Tyler Perry, starring Kerry Washington, Oprah Winfrey, Sam Waterston, and Susan Sarandon. She also has projects set up with The CW, CBS, Sony, 101 Studios, PictureStart, The Tannenbaum Company, and ITV America, and is working with talent including Bryan Cranston, Benicio Del Toro, Scott Derrickson & C Robert Cargill, Anthony Kiedis, Rebecca Miller, Marc Forrester, Bill Collage, Dana Stevens, and Will Gluck, to name a few. Keri is an active member in the philanthropic world and works with a myriad of organizations including: A Sense of Home, Wags and Walks, Oceana and Selig serves on the board of advisors for Children Mending Hearts.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
(Madrid, Spain; Washington, DC)
Senior Executive; Thought Leader; Author; Journalist
Over the past two decades, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon has served as a senior executive and thought leader committed to mobilizing capital to spur innovation, development and decarbonization, and to expanding the way we think about the investable universe.
Prior to MBA study, her career began in media, covering public policy and presidential elections at the ABC News Political Unit and CNN.com. She was on the launch team for “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” She has written three New York Times bestselling books on women transforming their communities amid war; all have been translated into multiple languages. Two of her books are in the Hollywood screen adaptation process. She also has authored pieces for The World Bank, CNN, Fast Company, Foreign Affairs, HBR, and Bloomberg, among others. on the urgency of tapping global talent, including women, to spur economic development. Her first TED Talk, on new models to invest in global entrepreneurs, was a TED Talk of the Day. She has spoken at Harvard Business School, Aspen Ideas Festival, Clinton Global Initiative, the World Bank, the Supreme Allied Command in Europe and Aspen Security Forum, among others.
Currently, Gayle advises funds, founders and philanthropies focused on climate change and energy transition in developed and emerging markets. Gayle consults for a Silicon Valley-based impact fund investing directly in technology ventures at the intersection of emerging markets and climate. These include early-stage companies in West and North Africa whose technologies address climate change. She also is a consultant to The Rockefeller Foundation, focused on catalyzing private sector capital to speed the global transition to decarbonized power systems. Specifically, she is focused on leading private sector engagement for initiatives including the Energy Transition Accelerator, an innovative carbon finance platform aimed at unlocking private funding for the just energy transition in emerging economies. She also develops go-to-market strategies for venture capital-backed, early stage founders in the energy transition space focused on creating new markets for their climate-focused products. This work comes alongside her role as a senior fellow with Mission Possible Partnership, dedicated to decarbonizing the hardest-to-abate sectors.
Earlier in her career, Gayle served on the leadership team at Andreessen Horowitz-backed, early-stage AI companies. She also served in the Executive Office and as an Emerging Markets Product Manager at the financial services firm PIMCO. During the 2008 global financial crisis, she helmed policy analysis for the Executive Committee and the Investment Committee under Mohamed El-Erian and Bill Gross. She also worked for more than a decade as Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, focused on the intersections of finance, climate and economic development. In this capacity she regularly wrote about the urgency of investing in entrepreneurs in developing nations. She also regularly briefed members of Congress and the White House on these topics.
A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the Harvard Business School, she is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and the International Center for Research on Women’s advisory council. A Fulbright Scholar and Robert Bosch Fellow, she speaks Spanish, German, conversational French, and is conversant in Dari and Kurmanci.
Dana Stevens
(Los Angeles, CA; Charleston, SC)
Screen write; Executive Producer; Hollywood; Governor at the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences; Sundance Lab
Dana Stevens has had a long career writing features and television. Her most recent film was “The Woman King,” starring Viola Davis and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, for which she was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Other films include “Fatherhood,” starring Kevin Hart, “Safe Haven,” “City of Angels,” and “For Love of the Game.” She created and produced “Reckless,” a legal drama for CBS, and “What About Brian,” an ABC series. Dana was recently elected a Governor of the Writers Branch at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and is a frequent advisor at the prestigious Sundance Writing Lab.
Chiara Tilesi
(Florence, Italy; Los Angeles, CA)
Director; screenwriter; producer; activist; Founder of WE DO IT TOGETHER
Chiara Tilesi is an Italian Producer and Director. She has produced the 2023 Academy Award® nominated film “Tell It like a woman”. She is Founder of We Do It Together (WDIT), a 501(c)3 non-profit film production company dedicated to the advancement of women and minorities. In 2018, Chiara also established Frequency Production, a venture focused on creating media that fosters positive societal impact.
The Academy Award® nominated film, “Tell It Like A Woman” features seven segments helmed by a diverse and internationally renowned group of women filmmakers: Margherita Buy, Cara Delevingne, Jacqueline Fernandez, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Hudson, Eva Longoria, Pauletta Washington, and Anne Watanabe. Moreover, Chiara took on the role of music video producer for the film’s theme song, “Applause,” composed by Diane Warren and performed by Sofia Carson. The song, which celebrates women’s empowerment, was also nominated for Best Original Song at the 2023 Academy Awards®.
March 2023 presented WDIT at the UN Nation General Assembly, where she inaugurated the women’s month by hosting a “Tell It Like A Woman” screening in collaboration with UN Women, the Mission of Italy to the United Nations, and governments including the USA, UK, Japan, Chile, and Argentina.
Chiara’s contributions extend to a multitude of impactful projects, including “All the Invisible Children,” “Teach Me Again,” “Giving Back Generation” (Seasons 1-3), “One Of Us” (Seasons 1- 2), “Be The Subject, Not The Object,” and “The Longevity Revolution,” among others. These undertakings underscore her unwavering dedicaHon to driving social transformation through the medium of film and media.
Recognized as a Cultural Leader at the 2019 World Economic Forum, Chiara delivered an address titled “The Female Icon” at the organization’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. This speech delved into the disruption of existing paradigms and the capacity of women’s narratives to effect change. Renowned as a compelling public speaker, Chiara has shared her insights and expertise at distinguished global institutions, including TED X WOMEN and the United Nations. Her potent messages of empowerment and societal change have captivated audiences, galvanizing individuals and organizations alike to take affirmative acHon and foster positive change worldwide.
