Our Team

Jessica Jones | Director, Editor

Jessica Jones is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker. Her work focuses on community, cultural representation, and race with a specific focus on both Black and multiracial identity, often with a focus on women and the arts through character-driven narratives. Her work has appeared on Independent Lens, The New York Times, BBC, KQED, among others publications. She is a part of two-time Webby award winning If Cities Could Dance filmmaking team and in 2016, she received an Emmy nomination for “Women Dancers Redefine Oakland’s Street Dancing Scene”, published on KQED Arts. She is a part of the creative team behind Mixed People’s History, an online story archival project. She was the 2011 George Stoney Fellow at Working Films, and a 2013 BAVC Mediamaker Fellow. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, and George Washington University’s Institute for Documentary Filmmaking.

WOMEN WHO RIDE is her directorial debut.

Debra Wilson | Producer

Debra is an award-winning director and producer. Her directorial debut with Butch Mystique massed several awards and aired on Showtime. She also followed up with the short documentary Jumpin’ the Broom aired on Showtime. She has produced such films as Mississippi Damned, two ITVS Futurestates shorts Crossover and Ant, and The Lake Merritt Monster, supported by San Francisco FilmHouse. And in 2022, Debra produced the National Endowment of the Arts docuseries Roots of American Culture, honoring the recipients of the National Heritage Fellows. Debra is an alum of the Sundance Producers Lab Intensive, BAVC National MediaMaker Fellow, and San Francisco FilmHouse Residency. 

Benjamin Michel | Director of Photography

Benjamin Michel is an award-winning filmmaker of Haitian descent. He was born in Irvington, New Jersey and was exposed to a rich cultural heritage growing up. After a number of years in Florida, he pursued a career in motion pictures as a director, cinematographer, writer, and producer. His films often highlight the cultural and historical lives of people from different parts of the world. The structure of his films usually blends the classical tropes of storytelling with elements of surrealism. He's received inspiration from the work of auteurs such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Wong Kar-wai, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Raoul Peck. Benjamin's become known for creating unique, poetic and beautifully cinematic films.

Eriq Robinson | Composer

Eriq Robinson is a composer and bassist based in New York City. A Wesleyan University graduate, Eriq has performed with a collection of New York Free Jazz luminaries such as William Hooker and Ras Moshe Burnett. He is a working bassist for numerous up and coming Pop, R&B, and Hip Hop projects.

Bianca Beyrouti, Associate Producer

Bianca Beyrouti is a proud Bay Area born-and-bred indie filmmaker who has spent the last decade bringing order to the chaos that is movie-making. By day she serves as the associate producer of the award-winning documentary series Independent Lens at ITVS; she moonlights as a producer of narrative short and features. Her most noteworthy producing credit is the award-winning indie feature Bring Me an Avocado, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube Movies, and Tubi. Her numerous short film credits have screened at film festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has also served on various screening and review committees and panels, and is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Scary Cow filmmaking collective.

Suzette Burton | Associate Producer

Suzette Burton is an award winning filmmaker, producer, and editor. She has co- produced the documentary "Daddy Don't Go" directed by Emily Abt. The film is also executive produced by Omar Epps and Malik Yoba. It aired on the Starz network in 2015 and screened at over 30 film festivals, winning 8 best documentary awards. Suzette has also worked as an assistant editor on the documentary "Little White Lie" as well as a producer and editor for a variety of companies such as Blumhouse Productions, Disarming Films, Pureland Pictures, WEtv/AMC Networks, One Kreate, The Moth, Atlas Media, Black Entertainment Television, and Stick Figure Productions. Recently she was an assistant editor for the NAACP Image Award nominated docu - series Unladylike2020. Which is 26 short films and a broadcast hour on PBS American Masters profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. Aside from being a filmmaker, Suzette is also a documentary teaching artist at City Lore.

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