Subject
ABOUT
SUBJECT explores the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen through the participants of five acclaimed documentaries. As tens of millions of people consume documentaries in an unprecedented “golden era,” the film urges audiences to consider the impact on documentary participants—the good, the bad, and the complicated.
Subject is Camilla Hall's third independent documentary feature film. She recently completed directing Kingdom of Dreams, a new documentary series produced by Misfits Entertainment for Sky and HBO Max. Her first documentary feature, Copwatch, premiered in Competition at the 2017 Tribeca Festival and her second, Garenne, was broadcast across Europe by BBC Storyville and Arte. Camilla has also produced films including Sirens (Sundance 2022) and Circus of Books (Tribeca, 2021 & Netflix). She taught the inaugural documentary filmmaking class at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Prior to filmmaking, she was an award-winning journalist at the Financial Times.
Jennifer Tiexiera is an award winning documentary director, and producer. Most recently, she directed P.S. Burn this Letter Please– a film that begins with the impossible discovery of a box of letters that date back to the early 1950’s and reveal an untold and secret history of New York’s LGBT community. P.S. Burn this Letter Please made it’s debut at the 2021 TriBeCa Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature at the 2020 OutFest Film Festival. In 2019, she completed 17 Blocks– a documentary directed by Davy Rothbart and spanning over 20 years as it intimately follows the lives of a Washington DC family deeply affected by gun violence. 17 Blocks premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival where Tiexiera was awarded Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film. In 2017, she both produced and edited the documentaries, A Suitable Girl, winner of the Albert Maysles Award at the TriBeCa Film Festival and Waiting for Hassana, official selection of the Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto Film Festivals. Her previous work also includes the documentary, Salam Neighbor, narrative film, Road to Paloma and the 2011 SXSW Documentary Grand Jury Winner, Dragonslayer. Some of her television credits include documentaries, Oprah Builds a Network and Biggie : The Notorious Life of B.I.G., the Emmy-nominated ESPN film, The Marinovich Project, and short film Woinshet, directed by Marisa Tomei and Lisa Leone for PBS. Tiexiera is a proud member of the Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the Documentary Producers Alliance, the International Documentary Association, LatinX Directors, Women in Film and Film Fatales. She is currently in post-production directing her next documentary feature, Subject and in production directing her first series for Jigsaw/HBO.
CREDITS
Jennifer Tiexiera
JENNIFER TIEXIERA
JOE CATERINI
MARGIE RATLIFF