Carla Roda
Editing
Known For

Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to tell you what she was about. But privately, Allee struggled with not fitting established gender and sexual norms. She buried herself in her work, until true love manifested her ultimate masterpiece - self-acceptance.
The World According to Allee Willis

Lena Samoilova, a headstrong and creative teenager in suburban Russia, yearns for the support and approval of her working-class parents in pursuit of her dream to become an actress.
Parallels

Short film from Susanna Lo
Short Version of Alma

A high school principal in a small town in Texas hosts a yearly Quinceañera for students that can't afford it. The entire border town gets together to teach these girls that with the power of community any dream can come true.
Our Quinceañera

An artist struggles by not finding the way to finish his master piece.
Perfection

Survivor Made follows a group of survivors of gender-based violence as they defy the odds - building their own businesses in Los Angeles, lobbying in Washington DC, and fighting to prove that investing in survivors saves lives.
Survivor Made

A girlfriend goes over to meet her boyfriend's parents for the first time, but is forced to fight off the demon that shows up to the family dinner.
Loquita

A descendant of slaveholders looks deep into his family history. Under this disturbing truth he finds an amazing and unique lost chapter in American history. A story that is still being written by the descendants of people emancipated decades before the Civil War and the communities they founded.