Jen Gilomen
Producer/Director
Jen Gilomen is an award-winning documentary producer, director, and cinematographer who has created nationally and internationally distributed films, including UNSETTLED (Producer/Director of Photography, PBS World Channel, 2020, over 30 awards), LIFE ON THE LINE (Director/Producer, PBS, 2014, distributed by New Day Films, UFVA award best short doc), IN MY SHOES (Audience Award, Frameline / distributed by Frameline), and DEEP DOWN (Independent Lens, 2010, distributed by New Day Films), which was funded by ITVS and MacArthur Foundation, participated in the U.S. State Department’s American Documentary Showcase, and received an Emmy nomination in 2011. She is a former Supervising Producer at ITVS, director of independent media at BAVC, board member of Working Films, and media consultant/filmmaker/educator collaborating with hundreds of organizations. Jen is an Associate of the U.C. Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program, Member-Owner of New Day Films, Co-Founder of the Collective of Documentary Women Cinematographers, and member of Film Fatales and the Documentary Producers Alliance.
Jen was inspired to develop Delivering Justice after a life-threatening birth experience with multiple complications in late 2018. She is passionate about empowering all birthing people to have healthy relationships with care providers and positive birth outcomes, and hopes to use her white privilege to educate her fellow white Americans about these issues, and to support and uplift the BIPOC leaders of the reproductive justice movement. [IMDB | Fine Line Films]
Selina Lewis Davidson
Producer
Selina Lewis Davidson is an independent documentary producer who co-founded GreenHouse Pictures with Producer Nancy Roth in 2003. GreenHouse Pictures is a New York/Northern California-based documentary production company dedicated to telling diverse stories from a variety of perspectives that enlighten, educate and entertain. The company has produced more than 15 nationally broadcast documentaries exploring a wide range of topics. Her projects include: FLAT DADDY (directors: Betsy Nagler & Nara Garber); DOCNYC premiere 2011. The 2009 Emmy® nominated HARD ROAD HOME (director: Macky Alston) had its broadcast premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens in February 2008. OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND (directors: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds) released theatrically in 2005, won the 2006 Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction award and aired on the Sundance Channel in 2006; ESCUELA (director: Hannah Weyer) premiered at South by Southwest – Special Jury Prize, Double Take Documentary Film Festival – MTV/News/Docs Award, and broadcast nationally on POV. Emmy® nominated FAMILY NAME (director: Macky Alston) won the Freedom of Expression Award at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS’s POV. Today Selina is co-directing and producing the documentary ACTS OF REPARATION with Macky Alston, positioned to premiere in 2024.
Before her film career, Selina trained as a doula and worked with BIPOC and underserved mothers in her community of Oakland, CA. It changed her life. DELIVERING JUSTICE is close to her heart.
[GreenHouse Pictures]
Jessica Jones
Editor
Jessica Jones is an Emmy® nominated documentary filmmaker and editor. Her work focuses on community, cultural representation, and race — uplifting stories around the Black and multiracial experience — through character-driven narratives. She has served as an assistant editor for multiple feature documentaries, such as “A Fragile Trust” (Independent Lens, Dir: Samantha Grant), and “A New Color” (Dir: Mo Morris), and as an editor for work that has appeared on Instagram, the New York Times, KQED, and the BBC. In 2016, she received an Emmy® nomination for “Women Dancers Redefine Oakland’s Street Dancing Scene,” published on KQED Arts. She was the 2011 George Stoney Fellow at Working Films, a 2013 BAVC Mediamaker Fellow, and a part of the 2020 inaugural Re-Take Oakland fellowship program. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, and George Washington University’s Institute for Documentary Filmmaking. Jessica is a new mother who is passionate about Black maternal health. She included the final moments of her birth experience in her recent short film “On the Pulse of Life” created for the Smithsonian’s “Futures” exhibit and in partnership with BElovedBIRTH Black Centering.
[web site | Mae Shore Productions]
Ashley Omoma
Producer, Research & Development
A recent graduate of University of California, Berkeley, School of journalism Ashley Omoma, part journalist, part documentarian, all storyteller, is fascinated by truth and motivated by its ability to connect us. She works to amplify narratives that interrogate systems of power, pursue justice, highlight joy and if nothing else, make us feel less alone. A first generation Nigerian American, her upbringing, which bounced her between New York, North Carolina and Nigeria, gave her an appreciation for the diversity, diaspora and history of the Black lived experience, which she uses film to document. While at Berkeley, her work revolved largely around telling stories reflecting the experiences of Black women, from reproductive justice to healing for survivors of sexual assault. Her mission is to help create a world where truth is truly a tool for both justice and joy.
[Arrested Development | Marlon T. Riggs Fellowship]
Advisors
The producers are supported by a team of several creative and content advisors whose life work spans research, maternal health and obstetrics, midwifery, and racial and reproductive justice. (Bios and links coming soon.)
Supporters
California Humanities Research & Development Grant, 2020