Meet the Team.

Producer & Director

BRIGID MAHER is a filmmaker and tenured associate professor of Film and Media Arts Division in the School of Communication at American University. Her previous documentary, Veiled Voices, focuses on the phenomenon of Muslim women religious leaders in Islam. Veiled Voices is distributed by Typecast Releasing in the United States and Al Jazeera Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Several of her films have international distribution, including her latest documentary, The Mama Sherpas, released in 2015 alongside producer Ricky Lake and Abby Epstien (The Business of Being Born). Maher won a Fulbright Senior Award to teach broadcast media in Lebanon in the spring of 2005.

Co-Producer, Writer & Editor

EMMA BLACK is a filmmaker, writer, and video editor with a BA in Film and Media Arts from American University. She is frequently on set as a production assistant or working in post-production. Her most recent projects include a music video where she acted as a production assistant for local DC band Pajama Day’s song “Alyssum,” and her most recent short film, “Beyond the Lens,” which she wrote, directed and produced. She also wrote two screenplays for short films, “Your Biggest Fan” and “Empty Nesters,” and one pilot for an episodic series, “Staged.” Outside of work and school, Emma enjoys reading, making short video projects, and watching films.