Jennifer Tiexiera (USA)
Co-founder
Lady & Bird Films

Jennifer Tiexiera is an award-winning documentary director, producer and editor, and one of the co-founders of Lady & Bird, a women-run documentary production company focused on telling stories from underrepresented voices.

Most recently, she directed Subject which made its debut at the 2022 TriBeCa Film Festival. In 2020, she completed P.S. Burn this Letter Please, which won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature at the 2020 OutFest Film Festival.

Her editing credits include Mija, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. She edited 17 Blocks – a documentary spanning over 20 years – which premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival and won Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film. In 2017, she both produced and edited the documentaries, A Suitable Girl, winner of the Albert Maysles Award at the TriBeCa Film Festival and Waiting for Hassana, an official selection of the Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto Film Festivals.

Tiexiera has produced and edited numerous VR documentaries, which have screened at Sundance, TriBeCa and Venice. Her previous work also includes the documentaries, Oprah Builds a Network and Biggie: The Notorious Life of B.I.G..

Tiexiera is a proud member of the Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the Documentary Producers Alliance, the International Documentary Association, LatinX Directors, Women in Film and Film Fatales. She is currently in post-production directing her first series for Jigsaw/HBO.