Jennifer Tiexiera

Board Member

Jennifer Tiexiera is an award-winning filmmaker and one of the co-founders of Lady & Bird, a female-led documentary production company focused on telling stories from underrepresented voices. She is known for directing SPEAK (2025 Sundance Film Festival), Rebbeca (2025 TriBeCa Film Festival), the Emmy-nominated HBO series Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo, Subject (2022 TriBeCa Film Festival), and PS Burn This Letter Please (2020 TriBeCa Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at the 2020 OutFest Film Festival). As an editor and producer, she is known for 17 Blocks (winner of the Best Editing Award at the 2020 TriBeCa Film Festival), A Suitable Girl (winner of the Albert Maysles Award at the 2017 TriBeCa Film Festival), and the 2011 SXSW Documentary Grand Jury Winner, Dragonslayer. She is a proud member of BGDM, the IDA, WIF, Film Fatales, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has recently served as a mentor for the inaugural HBO Documentary Films and The Gotham Film & Media Institute’s Documentary Development Initiative, The Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellowship, and The Academy Gold Mentorship Program.