Lela Meadow-Conner
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Lela Meadow-Conner is a Creative Producer and Founder of mama.film - a village at the crossroads of art & advocacy where storytellers, changemakers and nurturers come together to champion humanity through a maternal gaze. She has 20 years of experience in independent cinema exhibition, most recently as Executive Director of Film Festival Alliance (2017-2022) and also held leadership roles at the Tallgrass Film Festival and Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival.
Through its curation arm, mama.film operates as a nomadic experience, partnering with regional and national organizations to program films that center women, identity and the human experience. In 2020, mama.film launched rePRO Film, now programmed as a Periodical, it features a monthly short film and podcast advocating for reproductive justice. In 2021 & 2022 mama.film served as a Satellite Screen for the Sundance Film Festival in Kansas. In January of 2022, mama.film was one of 567 organizations (from 7500 eligible applicants) to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts' American Rescue Plan.
She currently serves as Co-Producer on Sav Rodgers' documentary feature 'Chasing Chasing Amy', Producer on Nitzan Mager's narrative short and feature ''Run Amok', and has several other projects in development.
Lela is an alumni of The Industry Academy, a program of Film at Lincoln Center/Locarno Film Festival and recently participated in the Brand Storytelling Certificate Program and Sundance Co//ab Film Producing Workshop. She's served on multiple film juries including AFI and the NAACP Image Awards, and is a frequent panelist for national industry organizations including The Gotham, SXSW and Ghetto Film School and has been quoted as a trade expert in publications including the New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, IndieWire and Box Office Pro. She is a proud board member of the Vidiots Foundation.
Through its curation arm, mama.film operates as a nomadic experience, partnering with regional and national organizations to program films that center women, identity and the human experience. In 2020, mama.film launched rePRO Film, now programmed as a Periodical, it features a monthly short film and podcast advocating for reproductive justice. In 2021 & 2022 mama.film served as a Satellite Screen for the Sundance Film Festival in Kansas. In January of 2022, mama.film was one of 567 organizations (from 7500 eligible applicants) to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts' American Rescue Plan.
She currently serves as Co-Producer on Sav Rodgers' documentary feature 'Chasing Chasing Amy', Producer on Nitzan Mager's narrative short and feature ''Run Amok', and has several other projects in development.
Lela is an alumni of The Industry Academy, a program of Film at Lincoln Center/Locarno Film Festival and recently participated in the Brand Storytelling Certificate Program and Sundance Co//ab Film Producing Workshop. She's served on multiple film juries including AFI and the NAACP Image Awards, and is a frequent panelist for national industry organizations including The Gotham, SXSW and Ghetto Film School and has been quoted as a trade expert in publications including the New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, IndieWire and Box Office Pro. She is a proud board member of the Vidiots Foundation.