We Are a Women-run, Creative
Film Production Company
Character development. Important for both real people and film characters. We are a film production company with the motto that good development comes from doing hard things with the right people. We tell captivating stories and treat each other well.
"Take notes. Everything is copy." Nora Ephron
Our specialty is people-first documentary that takes the time to nurture relationships. We tell stories that are fundamental to humanity, society, life, and that make you think and connect.
What We Love
Series-obsessive may be an understatement. We watch everything. The series form has the capacity to draw you in, until you're friends, or enemies, with the characters.
From rom-coms to horror, we are driving our creativity to the edge. By centering diverse and female-led narratives, we are pushing Bay Area film making into its next era.
“Truly creative things happen when one thinks differently...”
Shonda Rhimes
Meet Me!
Elly Schmidt-Hopper
Founder/Director/Writer
Elly Schmidt-Hopper is a Bay Area based director, producer and writer. Producing credits include YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT (OPS Productions), a top performing Netflix original series about health and the environment that reached over 20 million people worldwide. She currently working on the impact campaign of a the feature documentary, ACTS OF REPARATION, coordinating reparative genealogy events around the country. Camera department credits include Academy-Award nominated short LEAD ME HOME (Actual Films), REBUILDING PARADISE (Imagine Entertainment), I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK (HBO) and STATE OF PRIDE (Telling Pictures). She’s a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate Journalism Program with a concentration in documentary filmmaking. A Fulbright Grant recipient, taught in Medellín, Colombia for a year. She is a UC Berkeley Merit Scholarship recipient.
Our Work
Click through our gallery to see the documentary and narrative films and series we're working on and dreaming up now.
