The Team
Cas Sigers-Beedles
Cas Sigers-Beedles is a writer, director, and producer with more than 18 years of experience. She wrote and directed the all-female heist film Scheme Queens (BET), and her biopic When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story earned two NAACP Image Award nominations. She has written and sold more than twenty screenplays for networks, studios, and production houses, and is a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.
Robert Philipson
Dr. Robert Philipson is the founder of Shoga Films, a production company committed to documentaries and narrative shorts about the Queer Harlem Renaissance. He wrote and produced the acclaimed narratives Congo Cabaret and Smoke, Lilies and Jade.
Adam L. McMath
Adam L. McMath is a producer and filmmaker with 15 years of experience in commercial production. His documentary work centers Black and LGBTQ stories, bringing overlooked histories and voices to the screen. He was inducted into the Chicago LGBTQ Hall of Fame in 2025.
Ty Johnston-Chavis
Ty Johnston-Chavis is a film and television producer and the founder and CEO of T.Y. Entertainment. Her producing and directing credits include The Match (ALLBLK), A Taste of Betrayal, and Style Me for Christmas (BET), and she has worked with networks including BET, VH1, and UPTV. In 2011 she launched the Atlanta Pitch Summit, which connects emerging creators with network executives. She is the author of To Pitch or Not to Pitch and Give Me the Greenlight, and a member of the Producers Guild of America.
Marc Smolowitz
Marc Smolowitz is a multi-award-winning director, producer, executive producer, and consulting producer who has been involved in more than 60 independent films and raised more than $35 million for independent film over three decades. His work has screened at 300+ festivals and markets on five continents, including Sundance, Berlin, Venice, SXSW, and Tribeca. Recent features include Lady Champagne (2026), which world premiered at BFI Flare and opened Frameline50, and Outerlands (2025), a 2026 Independent Spirit Award nominee. In 2009 he founded 13th Gen, a San Francisco-based boutique entertainment company, and in 2016 he received a Gotham Fellowship to the Cannes Film Festival’s Producers Network.
Victor V. Hogan, II
Victor V. Hogan, II is a director and Emmy Award-winning producer and editor. Born in New York to Panamanian parents and raised in South Queens, he has spent more than three decades in Atlanta directing, editing, and producing for cable networks, streaming platforms, and independent films. He won an Emmy for producing and editing the 2004 documentary The New Face of Homelessness. He is co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of QVH Media and owns Sacri Monti Films, a full-service post-production company.
Full Credits
Background Talent
Melissa Chandler · Mike Warshaver · Steven Forbess · Svetlana Zernes · Kristin Mazza · Donna Dorney · Natalie Worjak · Deb Hern · Corey Gumpton · Marcy Green · Keneshia Brown · Darius Wilson · Sam Wilson · Matthew Dorney · David Kloepping · Chance Bartels · Lindsay Cox