Mara Adina
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Producer
Mara Adina (she/her) is a creative producer and co-founder of Vernon Films. Mara produced Ilinca Calugareanu’s debut feature film Chuck Norris vs Communism, which premiered in competition at Sundance 2015. She recently produced Ilinca’s second feature doc, A Cops and Robbers Story, which screened in US cinemas and on Hulu in 2022, as well as The Joys and Sorrows of Young Yuguo, which launched on Netflix in 2023. Mara is in development on A Private Wild (supported by Sundance Institute), Heisenbug (supported by SFFilms, CNC Romania, and Creative Europe MEDIA), and a slate of projects primarily helmed by female creatives. Mara is also a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow.
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Joaquín Díaz
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Brett Story
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Jeanie Finlay
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Mars Verrone
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