A woman wearing glasses and a blue patterned headscarf sits on a couch in a cozy living room, resting her head on a pillow with her eyes closed. In the background, a lamp emits warm light, and the room is decorated with various framed pictures, a sculpture on a side table, and plants.

MEET THE DIRECTOR

Tyler Young (Girl Tyler) is a former morning news producer-turned-filmmaker born and raised in Greenville, SC. With a cinematic language rooted in Southern heritage, Tyler weaves fantastical elements into genre-blending narratives to explore fractured multi-generational bonds. Tyler is a part of the 2026 Film at Lincoln Center Artists Academy cohort. In 2024, Tyler wrote and directed her debut short, the award-winning dark comedy, Dying Laughing. Her third short, Emergency Contact, made its East Coast premiere at the 2026 Oscar-qualifying New York International Children’s Film Festival. Tyler is currently in post-production for her historical Southern Gothic short film, Porcelain Shadows. She is a freelance producer and documentary researcher. Tyler produced the 2024 NAACP Image Award-nominated short film presented by Queen Latifah’s Queen Collective program. Tyler earned her B.A. in Mass Communication at Winthrop University and is an alumna of Film Independent’s Project Involve writing track.

Two women are standing inside a room with wooden flooring and a dresser. One woman is holding a camera and wearing headphones, glasses, a headscarf, gray t-shirt, and green pants. The other woman is holding a basket with a wine bottle, wearing glasses, gold earrings, a camouflage jacket, a green skirt, and teal sneakers. There are framed photographs and a painting hanging on the wall behind them.

Meet THE PRODUCER

Stevee-Rayne Warren is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-born Producer and Film and TV Workforce Development specialist. She is currently the Workforce Program Director at New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC), where she manages community-based career readiness and job placement programs locally and across the country through consulting partnerships. Some notable productions she has recruited and consulted for include: Succession, Insecure, Queen Sugar, Joker, The Originals, Euphoria, All American, King Richard, True Detective,The Walking Dead, The Color Purple, Carry-On, Five Nights At Freddy's, Iron Claw, Rebel Ridge, Nickel Boys, Sinners, Weapons, One Battle After Another  and many more. In her time at NOVAC, she has spearheaded entry-level and craft-specific training programs for almost a decade and has consulted for over 250 productions in over 15 states and four countries. Stevee-Rayne is an Executive Board Member of the Baton Rouge Film Commission, Founding Board Member of the Louisiana Academy of Production, Dean’s Advisory Committee Member for Southern University's School of Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, and an Advisory Board Member for the Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival.  She graduated from Southern University with a BA in English Literature, is an American Black Film Festival Greenlighters alumna, and was a NOFF (New Orleans Pitch 2024) finalist. She is committed to empowering individuals in The South and other smaller production markets to gain access to filmmaking opportunities and sustainable creative careers. She is currently based in Louisiana and is the mother of an eleven-year-old daughter.

A woman with curly hair, wearing large black glasses and pearl earrings, sitting at a wooden table against a plain dark background, with her hands clasped on the table.

Meet THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Darcy McKinnon is a documentary filmmaker in New Orleans, whose recently released projects include the award-winning Natchez, (Best Documentary, Tribeca, 2025), theatrically released by Oscilloscope in 2025, broadcast on Independent Lens in 2026. Other recent projects include Turnaround, (NOFF 2025), A King Like Me (Netflix), Roleplay, (SXSW, 2024), Commuted (PBS, 2024), Algiers, America (Hulu, 2023), Under G-d (Sundance 2023), Look at Me! XXXTENTACION (SXSW, Hulu, 2022) and The Neutral Ground (Tribeca, POV, 2021). She is currently working on new projects with Jason Jeffers, Zac Manuel, Alyse Shorland, Brian Becker, CJ Hunt and Nicole Craine. Her work has been featured on Netflix, Hulu, World Channel, AfroPop, POV, and Reel South and has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, CPH:DOX and more. She was the recipient of American Documentary’s 2023 Creative Visionary Award, the 2025 New Orleans Film Society Lumière Award, and the 2026 Southern Lens award from the Southern Documentary Fund.