Just Sing - Film Festival at Hollywood Park - LA Premiere!

A musical coming of age story following the SoCal VoCals, an elite team of collegiate singers from the University of Southern California as they compete in the most prestigious a cappella tournament in the world. An intimate portrayal of those who sing to express their most authentic selves.

Director Biography - Angelique Molina, Abraham Troen

Angelique Molina is a Los Angeles based filmmaker. Inspired by visual storytelling, she is working on both documentary and narrative projects. In 2017, she directed the documentary There Goes the Neighborhood, which was accepted into the Los Angeles Film Festival and received the Best Documentary Short Award at USC’s First Look Film Festival. Angelique has been busy at work in the television world, working on hit shows such as Grown-ish, Will and Grace, #Blackaf, Live in Front of a Studio Audience and Young Sheldon. Recently, she has been working on Netflix’s animated series Ada Twist, Scientist and was on the Producing team for Boardwalk Pictures/Concordia documentary feature film Accepted. She co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced the feature film, I’M FINE (Thanks for Asking), which made its festival debut at SXSW 2021 and had its television debut on BET.

Abraham "Abie" Troen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has led documentary projects in Israel, Kenya, India, Mexico, the US and Canada, lensing documentaries for Netflix, the BBC, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast, and OUT Magazine, his work has screened at TIFF, SXSW, Doc NYC IDFA amongst others. Abie studied at the Sam Spiegel school for film and Television in Jerusalem, received a BA from Brandeis University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and an MFA from USC where was awarded the Annenberg Fellowship for excellence, the highest merit scholarship at USC for which he used to specialize in documentary filmmaking. In 2017, Abraham directed Finding Home, a series of portraits of LGBT asylum seekers living in LA, for which he won the QFilms best director award and the Don Thompson award and was on the BAFTA shortlist. Together with Emmy award-winning director, Maya Zinshtein, and Academy Award winning Producer John Battsek, Abraham was both Producer and DOP for ‘Til Kingdom Come (2020); he spent three years intimately documenting the Evangelical influence on US foreign affairs with Israel. The film was awarded the Sundance DFP Grant, Bertha Doc Society Journalism award, and IDA Enterprise Fund among others. Abraham resides in Los Angeles and is currently filming on both sides of the Atlantic.

Credit

• Angelique Molina - Director - I'm Fine (Thanks for Asking), There Goes the Neighbourhood
• Abraham Troen - Director
• Sarah Thomson - Producer - The Deepest Breath, The Australian Dream, If These Walls Could Sing
• John Battsek - Producer - Bobi Wine: The People's President, Searching for Sugar Man, The Deepest Breath, Listen To Me Marlon

• Sarah Thomson
• [email protected]

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