Ingrid Jungermann (L) and Desiree Akhavan (R).

Photo by Sarah Deragon

DESIREE AKHAVAN (Co-Creator)
Desiree Akhavan is an Iranian-American filmmaker living in Brooklyn. She was raised in New York and attended the prestigious Horace Mann School, where she was socially rejected by many children of celebrities. She went on to receive her undergraduate degree from Smith College, which had a much smaller celebrity presence. She is currently an MFA candidate at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she is working on her thesis, a feature based  on “The Slope.”

INGRID JUNGERMANN (Co-Creator)
Ingrid moved to Brooklyn over seven years ago to continue directing and producing her own independent theater and film. She founded Bombshell Films in 2003 under which she has produced several projects, the latest being “Back to the Dust,” a 16mm short about a born-again Jehovah’s Witness who attempts to convert her non-believing daughters.

In 2010, she completed an internship at Newfest: NY LGBT Film Festival in conjunction with a grant from AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and worked as a Teacher’s Assistant for the NYU Summer High School Film Program.

Ingrid is a 2011 recipient of the NYWIFT Scholarship and is finishing her last year of graduate film school at NYU: Tisch School of the Arts, where she was also awarded a Graduate Assistantship in Editing.