
Ani Mercedes is an Impact Producer and Founder of Looky Looky Pictures. She's designed, implemented, and lead impact and outreach campaigns for numerous feature-length films, shorts, and social initiatives. Highlights include Liyana, Good Pitch selections Councilwoman and Unaccompanied Children, Building the American Dream, and supporting impact on Our 100 Days shorts series by Field of Vision while a Firelight Media Impact Producer Fellow.
She directed two short documentaries, The Hall (PBS) Hand Built Boat (Miami International Film Festival). Her third short, Fearless, was selected for a Sundance Short Film Intensive. She began her film career as a Kartemquin Films intern, studying hours of raw footage from Academy-Award nominated director Steve James. She helping filmmakers build financial sustainability at Thriving Filmmaker, an online course and podcast.
Prior to filmmaking, she a White House intern under President Obama, an elementary school teacher (Teach for America), and helped school districts improve their technology. She earned a Bachelor’s in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, a Master’s in Public Administration from Syracuse University, and she's based in Miami, Florida.
Sessions in which Ani Mercedes participates
- Making a Living at Making Change with Documentary
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Film L.A. - Meeting Room
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Thriving Filmmaker Workshop
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Film L.A. - Meeting Room
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Workshop
Sessions in which Ani Mercedes attends
- Registration Cinerama Dome - Lobby
- 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 9 hours
- Keynote: Molly Thompson Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- Pulling Back the Curtain
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Interactive Workshop
- Challenge of Independent Film Distribution ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- A Conversation with Morgan Neville and Judd Apatow Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Conversation
- Opening Night Party Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 2 hours
- Keynote: Michèle Stephenson Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- Frederick Wiseman Master Class Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Getting In Early: Development Funding ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Gimme Truth!
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full The Montalbán - Theatre
- 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Game Show
- #DecolonizeDocs—The Audience ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Mock Deposition: The case of IDA vs. Marco Williams
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Performance
- Impact Producers Convening
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- Convening
- Equity Investment in Documentary Film ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Crediting at a Crossroads ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Role of Documentary in the Public Sphere
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Closing Remarks
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM | 15 minutes
- Closing Night Party Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes