Abby Lee (Editor) works as a Video Producer at Columbia Video Network, part of Columbia School of Engineering. At CVN, Abby creates promotional materials and educational video content for learners. Abby is also currently a part time illustrator and has worked on 2 children books for charity donations. Rainbow and Moon, written by actor Lindsay Jones, and illustrated by Lee was a collaboration effort with an Austin based multimedia company, Rooster Teeth. Abby free-lances as an editor and graphic designer. She is an advocate for animal rescues and an art enthusiast. Josalynn Smith (Assistant Producer) is a queer black American filmmaker living and working between New York and Los Angeles. A graduate of Columbia University’s Film MFA program, their thesis short, “Something in the Water” (2019), received the Sloan Foundation’s Production Grant. Their shorts, and a feature documentary on which they served as a narrator and videographer, have screened at St. Louis International Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto Film Festival, Bentonville Film Festival and others. Josalynn was a SAGIndie finalist for their feature script “Ride or Die” at Stowe Story Lab. They were also in residence at SFFILM as a 2019 Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellow with their feature script “Something in the Water.” Most recently, they’re a 2021 recipient of a Sundance Uprise Grant for a new project about Pauli Murray’s early life. MBMI TEAM - 30
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