TEAM

LOIRA LIMBAL
DIRECTOR & PRODUCER

Loira Limbal is an award-winning Afro-Dominican filmmaker and DJ interested in the creation of art that is nuanced and revelatory for communities of color. Limbal’s current film, THROUGH THE NIGHT, is a feature documentary about a 24 hour daycare center. THROUGH THE NIGHT is a duPont Award winner, New York Times Critics’ Pick, was selected for a world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, and aired on PBS' POV series in May 2021. Her first film, ESTILO HIP HOP, was a co-production of ITVS and aired on PBS in 2009. She is an Open Society Foundations Soros Equality Fellow, United States Artists Fellow, Sundance Institute Fellow, NAACP Image Award nominee, a DOC NYC Documentary New Leader, Chicken & Egg Award recipient, and a former Ford Foundation JustFilms/Rockwood Fellow. She is the former Senior Vice President of Programs at Firelight Media. Additionally, she co-produces and helms the popular Brooklyn monthly #APartyCalledRosiePerez. Limbal received a B.A. in History from Brown University and is a graduate of the Third World Newsreel's Film and Video Production Training Program. She lives in Puerto Rico with her two children.

JAMEKA AUTRY
PRODUCER

Jameka Autry is a producer, director, and 2019 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow. In 2017 she was honored as an Impact Partners Creative Producers Fellow and in 2018 she was selected as part of the inaugural DOC NYC 40 Under 40 List. She was recently awarded the Sundance/A&E Brave Storyteller Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and currently holds a Post Graduate Fellowship at the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

Most recently she completed work on THROUGH THE NIGHT, which premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Other producing works include ERNIE & JOE: CRISIS COPS, which won the jury grand prize at SXSW and Boston International Film Festival, and premiered on HBO in Fall 2019. Jameka has also produced MARATHON: The Patriots Day Bombing (HBO), IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE (Showtime), MATANGI/ MAYA/M.I.A. (Sundance '18) and served as a Consulting Producer on WE THE ANIMALS and LOVE GILDA.

MALIKA ZOUHALI-WORRALL
EDITOR

Malika Zouhali-Worrall is an Emmy award-winning director and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. Her first film, CALL ME KUCHU, a collaboration with Katherine Fairfax Wright, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2012, going on to screen at more than 200 film festivals and win 20 awards, including the Berlinale’s Teddy Award, and Hot Docs’ Best International Feature Award. Malika’s second film, THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, a collaboration with David Osit and an ITVS/POV co-production, premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, and broadcast in the U.S. on POV, after a theatrical release in 2016. In 2017 the film was awarded the News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary, and was also nominated for Outstanding Documentary Editing and Best Documentary. More recently, Malika directed the pilot episode for European broadcaster ARTE’s EARN A LIVING (IDFA 2018), a documentary series that examines experiments worldwide in universal basic income. She is currently editing THROUGH THE NIGHT, a film by Loira Limbal about a 24-hour childcare center, which was selected for the 2019 Sundance Edit & Story Lab.

Nicole Docta
Co-PRODUCER

Nicole Docta (she/her) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has focused her career on producing socially provoking BIPOC stories and managing their impact campaigns. She offers her unique lens as a Korean-American transnational, transracial adoptee who grew up in Wisconsin. Nicole was part of the producing teams on Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated THE JUDGE (TIFF 2017) and Emmy Award-winning BELLY OF THE BEAST (HRWFF 2020) with Director Erika Cohn, and duPont Award-winner THROUGH THE NIGHT (Tribeca 2020) with Director Loira Limbal.. Not only does Nicole work to improve outcomes for the communities in her films, she strives to enhance the documentary industry. Nicole served as the Special Initiatives Producer at Firelight Media for three years co-curating the Beyond Resilience Series and helping to implement new artist programs to support BIPOC filmmakers. Her latest work includes producing THE DEAD ZONE about the little known pipeline to prison, the pretrial detention system and her directorial debut, ADOPTING, which explores the systemic changes needed in adoption after cutting ties with her own adoptive parents. Nicole is also a USC CPD NextGen Creative Fellow, one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40, a Sundance Producer Fellow, and Impact Partners Producer Fellow.

NAITI GAMEZ
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Naiti Gámez is a NYC-based filmmaker from Miami/Cuba. Naiti has worked as a cinematographer and director on award-winning films and television series. Her film, Love, Sadie premiered at the Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner. 

As a cinematographer, her film credits have screened at festivals worldwide including Festival de Cannes, Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, Camerimage, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, Festival du Cinema de Paris,  Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona, among them. Her TV credits include HBO, Showtime, PBS, ESPN, MTV, Discovery Channel, Nova, and Animal Planet.