Lady & Bird Films is a Los Angeles and London based production company founded by Jennifer Tiexiera, Rita Baghdadi and Camilla Hall. We are focused on premium, cinematic documentaries that showcase unique perspectives through powerful, ethical storytelling.
We have directed and produced films and doc series with:
NETFLIX, HBO, AMAZON, NAT GEO / DISNEY+, PARAMOUNT+, DISCOVERY+, PBS, TIME STUDIOS FREMANTLE, SKY STUDIOS
JENNIFER TIEXIERA is an award winning filmmaker and one of the co-founders of Lady & Bird, a female led documentary production company focused on telling stories from underrepresented voices. She most recently completed SPEAK, a film following five American teens as they spend a year crafting spoken word performances with the dream of winning the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competition (Official Selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival) and Rebbeca, an intimate portrait of the artist, Becky G at a crossroads between two cultures, navigating identity, family, expectations and fame which will be released at the 2025 TriBeCa Film Festival later this year.
Previously, she directed the three-part series, Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo for HBO which was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary and was a finalist for the 2024 duPont-Columbia Award. Her feature length documentary, Subject made it’s debut at the 2022 TriBeCa Film Festival and in 2020, she completed 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 its 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.
Tiexiera has produced and edited numerous VR documentaries as well- ZIKR: A Sufi Revival and The Day the World Changed, official selections of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and 2018 TriBeCa Film Festival respectively. She conducted IDA Extended Reality (XR) Master Class and in 2017, she edited The Last Goodbye which made it’s debut at the 2017 TriBeCa Film Festival, internationally at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival, and won the 2018 Lumiere Award for Best VR Documentary.
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 Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the International Documentary Association, Women in Film, Film Fatales, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has recently served as a mentor for the inaugural HBO Documentary Films and The Gotham Film & Media Institute’s Documentary Development Initiative, The Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellowship, and The Academy Gold Mentorship Program.
JENNIFER TIEXIERA
CAMILLA HALL is a documentary film director known for her Tribeca hit COPWATCH (2017) her Storyville/Arte feature GARENNE (2021) and SUBJECT which she co-directed with Jen Tiexiera and which was nominated for Best Documentary at Tribeca in 2022. She directed two episodes of KINGDOM OF DREAMS, a new series on the rise of the luxury business for Misfits Entertainment, Sky & HBO Max airing in late 2022. She produced the Emmy-nominated CIRCUS OF BOOKS now on Netflix and our very own Rita Baghdadi’s film SIRENS. She is an Executive Producer on BLACK BARBIE: A DOCUMENTARY. She is focused on character-driven stories that have societal value and enjoys finding the universal message in unexpected stories. She has filmed all over the United States, U.K, India, Tunisia, and Turkey. She is represented by Stern & Wild.
RITA BAGHDADI is an Emmy award-winning film director, producer and cinematographer known for the intimacy of her bold, character-driven work.
SIRENS premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest, among many other awards. The film was praised as “utterly charming” by the Hollywood Reporter, “deeply moving,” and “narrative perfection.” Released in theaters across the U.S by Oscilloscope, it is now available to stream. Most recently, Rita directed WILD BOYS, a 2-part doc series for Paramount+, based on the hit podcast. Her film FINDING THE LIGHT, about former conflict photographer Muhammed Muheison, premiered on Nat Geo/Disney+ as part of the Peabody Award-winning anthology series, PHOTOGRAPHER. Rita’s work on that film garnered nominations from Cinema Eye Honors and the Independent Spirit Awards.
Rita is an active mentor and speaker in the international documentary community. She co-founded the Los Angeles & London based production company Lady and Bird Films, known for their commitment to making nonfiction filmmaking more ethical. Rita is a Chicken and Egg Awardee, a Concordia Fellow, a Sundance Momentum Fellow, a Film Independent Fellow, and named one of DOC NYC’s ‘40 under 40.' She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and is sponsored by Canon.
Currently, Rita is in different stages of development, production and post-production on several projects, including STALLIONS, a feature documentary shooting in Morocco, and her debut scripted feature. When she’s not behind the camera, she’s always looking for a horse to ride.
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