About Us – Meet the Team

Robyn Kopp

Producer

Robyn Kopp is a documentary producer based in San Francisco, CA. Most recently Robyn produced MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in competition followed by SXSW & Tribeca (Kino Lorber/Kanopy/PBS American Masters.) Additionally, Robyn was the lead producer on ANY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM, a feature documentary about web3 creators (Film Hub) and on the award-winning feature film THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT. Robyn previously produced MAKE A SPLASH which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released nationally on ESPN. Previously she served as Associate Producer on the BAFTA nominated film, AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER, which opened the 2017 Sundance Film Festival (Paramount.) In 2016, Robyn served as the Associate Producer and Assistant Editor on the Peabody Award winning film, AUDRIE & DAISY, which premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was picked up as a Netflix Original film. Robyn holds a MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University and a BA from Scripps College.

Kate McLean

Producer

Kate McLean is a director and producer based in San Francisco. The Hollywood Reporter called her feature film debut “a portrait of a seismic shift,” and a “beautifully etched character study.” Kate produced the 2022 feature documentary WE ARE AS GODS, about counterculture icon Stewart Brand (SXSW 2021, HotDocs, SFFILM, CPH:DOX); Jamie Meltzer’ award winning documentary TRUE CONVICTION, which was broadcast on PBS; and the documentary BILL NYE: SCIENCE GUY (SXSW, CPH:DOX, HotDocs, SFFILM, AFI, Traverse City, PBS, Netflix). Kate is a Sundance Creative Producing Summit Fellow, and has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Jessica Anthony

Producer & Impact Producer

Serin Marshall

Producer

Serin Marshall is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer based in Los Angeles. Most recently, she produced the Oscar-nominated LEAD ME HOME which premiered at theTelluride Film Festival before its release on Netflix. Other recent projects include the Netflix films ATHLETE A, for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary, HALFTIME, a documentary about global icon Jennifer Lopez which opened the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and the Emmy-winning A TRIP TO INFINITY about the search for the infinite. She also produced the Emmy-nominated VEGAS BABY (PBS), as well as VOICES RISING, a documentary series for Disney+ about Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson and the music of WAKANDA FOREVER. Earlier projects include several Liz Garbus films for HBO, including BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD (Sundance 2011), THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH AUNT DIANE, and SHOUTING FIRE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF FREE SPEECH (Sundance 2009).

Chris Artherholt

Associate Editor

Chris is an editor and producer based in Oakland, CA.  Originally from the Bay Area, Chris spent the first decade of her career in New York City, working on nonfiction programming for the likes of Showtime, HBO, CNN, PBS, NBC, MTV, HGTV, and Travel Channel.  As assistant editor and production coordinator, Chris worked on the Oscar-winning documentary short, STRANGERS NO MORE, as well as HBO’s Emmy-nominated MASTERCLASS series.  She also worked on BEDLAM, which won official selection at Sundance and a duPont-Columbia Award.  Chris is proud to have edited the documentary short, OUT IN ALABAMA, an optimistic look at the LGBTQ+ community in Birmingham, Alabama.  Most recently, she edited WHAT WE CARRY WITH US, a series of micro docs about LGBTQ refugees presented at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco.  Chris holds a BFA in Film & Television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

João Vieira

Production Coordinator / Assistant Camera

João Vieira is a San Francisco–based documentary filmmaker, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work explores immigration, language, and the political realities of diasporic communities, often blending traditional filmmaking with analogue media and gallery-based installation. His projects have been showcased at the Oaxaca Film Festival, Los Angeles Experimental Forum, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Interbay Cinema Society, and San Francisco IndieFest.

Vieira has worked as a production coordinator, assistant camera and operator to a range of documentary productions, with credits including In Waves and War (2024), Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025), Art and Science Collide (2025), and Power and Light (in post-production). He holds a B.F.A. in Film Production from Emerson College and is the founder and director of Fronteiras Collective, an initiative connecting filmmakers across the Brazilian diaspora.

Bria Light

Associate Producer

Originally hailing from Eugene, Oregon, Bria Light spent over a decade working around the globe as an international educator before getting her start in journalism reporting at the local newspaper in Telluride, Colorado. Her journalistic pursuits led her to UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she graduated from the documentary film program in 2023. Her previous work includes short films ranging in topics from musicians’ experience with synesthesia, the struggles of traditional potters in Rajasthan, India, and ICE abuses at a county jail in California. She now works at Actual Films as an associate producer. When not working, you can find her playing bluegrass fiddle, trail running in the beautiful Bay Area, or attempting to train her weenie dog Butterbeans.

Lily Burnes Heath

Executive Assistant / Office Manager / Production Coordinator

Lily Burnes Heath is from Brooklyn, New York. Previously, she was a bookseller at Dog Eared Books, an editorial intern at ZYZZYVA, where she contributed criticism, and a publishing assistant at Transit Books.

Joey Horan

Associate Producer & Associate Editor

Joey Horan is a documentary filmmaker whose work explores themes of environment, displacement, and infrastructure. Originally from Rhode Island, he has lived and worked across the Great Lakes region, North Carolina, Northern California, and Brazil, experiences that inform his reporting and cinematic storytelling alike. His background in both newspaper and radio journalism grounds his films in rigorous research, strong narrative structure, and a deep commitment to on-the-ground reporting.

He holds a Master of Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Joey currently works at Actual Films, where he contributes across production and post-production as a co-producer and associate editor. His credits include In Waves and War (2024), Art and Science Collide (2025), and Power and Light (in post-production). In addition to his producing and editorial work, he is an experienced sound recordist, bringing a nuanced, immersive sensibility to the stories he helps tell.