TEAM MEMBERS

ALEX GIBNEY

Founder / President

Director Alex Gibney is called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine has a signature cinematic style that lends itself to penetrating, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries.

His work has been the recipient of an Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, several Peabody Awards, a Grammy Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award, The Independent Spirit Award and The Writers Guild Awards. Gibney was honored with the International Documentary Association’s Career Achievement Award in 2013 and the first-ever Christopher Hitchens Prize in 2015. He is the recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the News & Doc Emmys.

Gibney’s 2020 releases included: the well-received Crazy, Not Insane, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Agents of Chaos, a two-part documentary about Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections both for HBO, and Totally Under Control, a searing look at the administration’s failure to contain the COVID 19 pandemic released theatrically by Neon. In 2021, he directed the HBO two-part documentary, The Crime of the Century, which explored the origins, extent, and fallout of one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time, the opioid crises, and the Emmy-winning HBO documentaryThe Forever Prisoner (2021) which explored the chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), later identified as torture by those outside the agency. In 2022, Gibney’s two-part feature documentary, Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and is available on Apple TV+. In 2023, Gibney’s In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is now available on MGM+.

In 2024, Wise Guys: David Chase & The Sopranos, Gibney’s two-part series on David Chase and the iconic series, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2024 and is now available on HBO Max. The highly anticipated feature documentary The Bibi Files premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2024 and will be released later on this year.

Gibney is currently in production on the documentary Musk about the tech giant Elon Musk and “Knife,” a tentatively titled documentary inspired by Salman Rushdie’s memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” published in April.

RICHARD PERELLO

COO / Executive VP of Production

Richard Perello oversees the production for all of Jigsaw’s film, television and podcast projects and the company’s business and finance operations.

He has been serving as an executive in the entertainment industry and has been producing award-winning studio and independent feature films and projects for network television for over 25 years (including Warner Bros, Searchlight Pictures, Paramount, HBO, Showtime, CNN, Amazon, Discovery, Epix, MGM+, STARZ, Netflix, Hulu, AMC, A&E, National Geographic, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, NBC Television, MTV, Saturday Night Live and the Coca Cola Company). 

His financial industry experience as an investment banker includes working with the New York firms Kidder, Peabody & Co and Benedetto, Gartland & Company in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Richard is an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Columbia University in the MFA program.

RAZAN GHALAYINI

VP of Development

Razan Ghalayini heads the development of Jigsaw’s slate of non-fiction projects and is a two-time Emmy-nominated writer, director, and producer with experience, interest, and love for documentary storytelling and comedy.

Before joining Jigsaw, Razan was Co-Executive Producer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where she directed and produced over 70 segments across more than a dozen countries. She was also Co-Executive Producer on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.

In 2023, she wrote and directed Upsidedown, a short narrative film produced by Paul Feig that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Razan co-produced the feature documentaries Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma for HBO and We Are The Giant, about the activists leading the Arab Spring. Additionally, she directed Entrapped, a short documentary film that premiered at Sundance and investigated a high-profile unfair detention and entrapment case.

SRUTHI PINNAMANENI

Head of Audio

Sruthi is the head of audio production at Jigsaw helping to build the business, form strategic and creative alliances and develop and produce the Jigsaw audio slate. Her first love is investigative reporting.

Sruthi developed and produced the Jigsaw podcasts Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton with The Wall Street Journal and Jigsaw’s latest podcast Search Engine with PJ Vogt. Before arriving at Jigsaw, Sruthi reported and produced stories at Reply All, Radiolab, Marketplace, Studio 360, the BBC and The Economist.  Her favorite stories include ones about a prison blogger who claimed he’d been wrongly convicted of murder, a pet-obsessed YouTube celebrity caught in the cage of her own fame, and a small town in America that got taken over by a secretive political deal. She also helped develop the award-winning feature film Kumare. 

Sruthi grew up in Hyderabad, India, and has a master’s in broadcast journalism from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn and is mum to two loud boys.

ERIN EDEIKEN

Producer

Erin Edeiken is an award-winning producer at Jigsaw Productions in New York. Erin most recently produced two music docs at Jigsaw: In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (directed by Alex Gibney) and San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time (directed by Alison Ellwood and Anoosh Tertzakian). 

In 2021 she produced Gibney’s The Forever Prisoner, which won an Emmy for Best Investigative Doc.  Her previous work includes the Emmy-nominated films Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time (2020), The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley (2019) and Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015).  She was a Producer on Alex Gibney’s films Boom! Boom!  The World vs Boris Becker (2023), Citizen K (2019), and Crazy, Not Insane (2020) and has served as a Consulting Producer for HBO’s The Swamp (2020), Netflix’s Get Me Roger Stone (2017) and Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017).  Erin began her career in docs working for Martin Scorsese on HBO’s Public Speaking (2010) and the Emmy Award-winning film George Harrison: Living In the Material World (2011).

BETH M. SCHNIEBOLK

VP of Finance

Beth Schniebolk oversees financial and administrative operations at Jigsaw Productions for both the company and its productions. She leads a team that supports all of Jigsaw’s corporate needs and is an integral part of the group that guides its films to the finish line.

Beth arrived at Jigsaw in 2014 with over 20 years of financial management experience in entertainment, media, and financial services including JP MorganChase, Tucker Anthony and Schroeder & Co. Prior to Jigsaw, Beth was a production accountant for television series and feature films, both scripted and unscripted productions, for major studios, networks and independent projects. In addition, she has assisted production companies to establish production finance departments.

Beth is a former board member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT); a nonprofit organization with over 2,000 members that champions women’s rights, achievements, and points of view in the film, television and new media industries. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.B.A. from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

MAHAK JIWANI

Director of Scripted

Mahak Jiwani is a producer and development executive based in Los Angeles. She has worked on scripted and unscripted films and TV shows for HBO, Paramount+, ABC Signature and CBS.

Mahak’s credits include Cannes Films Festival selection JOYLAND, Emmy award winning documentary THE FOREVER PRISONER, and Venice film festival winning short film DARLING. Jiwani has produced films all over the world including US, Japan, Chile, and Pakistan. She is interested in telling stories that are entertaining and that reflect the world that we live in.

Mahak is a graduate of the Creative Producing program from Columbia University School of the Arts.

SYDNEY KINSEY

Development Coordinator

Raised in the mountains of Colorado and now based in Brooklyn, Sydney Kinsey has been with Jigsaw’s development team since 2021. Before joining Jigsaw, Sydney served as an Associate Producer on A&E’s First Blood and as Post-Production Assistant on Netflix’s Emmy nominated film The Great Hack, in addition to supporting development and series productions for a variety of networks. After earning a dual-degree in Journalism and Psychology at NYU, she has focused on the world of non-fiction storytelling through documentary. She is passionate about writing, reading, and watching movies.

ERIC MITTAN

Director of Technical Operations

Eric Mittan’s primary focus at Jigsaw, as Director of Technical Operations, is ensuring creative storytellers have the full use of all available tools (technical or otherwise) to express and communicate a wide range of ideas and emotions. He manages the post production process at Jigsaw as well as providing post production services on numerous Jigsaw projects. Eric joined Jigsaw in 2017 after eight years in broadcast journalism.

Eric Mittan graduated in 2004 from Nebraska Wesleyan University with two education degrees, and a passion for using technology for the creative exchange of ideas and knowledge.  Having slipped into a career in TV news, he spent 8 years as Chief Editor for the multi-award winning newsroom at WSIL-TV in Southern Illinois, helping the team earn the Illinois Broadcaster’s Association “Station of the Year” award for 3 consecutive years.  Having earned a break into the world of feature filmmaking, he moved to New York City in 2015 to join the engineering team at Light Iron, a division of Panavision.  Just 2 years later, he found the perfect blend of journalism and filmmaking at Jigsaw and jumped at the opportunity.  He and his wife live in Astoria, Queens and welcomed their first child, a daughter, in Fall 2022. 

RAHAT BATHIJA

Accountant

Rahat Bathija joined Jigsaw’s Finance team in 2021 working on both corporate and feature film projects. His financial scope of work covers all stages of a project from development to delivery and ensuring financial accuracy.

Before Rahat started studying Accounting & Film his first exposure to Jigsaw Productions was during school where he watched his favorite documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room in three separate academic classes. After working at an asset management firm he moved onto his first entertainment industry role at Viacom where he served as a payroll and production accountant. He transitioned to Senior Programming Analyst focused on financial forecasting for MTV. He joined Jigsaw where he brought these existing experiences to complement and improve Jigsaw’s processes and is still learning and expanding his own skill sets.

MAKIA MARTIN

Assistant Accountant

Makia Martin is a Jigsaw Production Accountant working on feature film projects and corporate accounting for the company. She has been a part of the Jigsaw family for over 7 years. When Makia’s not accounting, she works as a writer and actor in film, television, theater, and the podcast world.

Her credits include Manifest, Law & Order:SVU, and Only Murders in the Building

Makia is incredibly proud of the work that Jigsaw Productions has contributed to the documentary space.

CARLOS MARIN

Accounting Clerk

Carlos joined the Jigsaw Finance team as Accounting Clerk in 2022 to help support documentary projects and the corporate accounting team.

Carlos graduated from Hunter College in Urban Studies, Fine Arts and Media Studies. His experience includes internships at the Urban Justice Center, the Manhattan Borough President’s Office and Central Casting. In his free time, Carlos likes to explore the city, watch movies, paint and he is learning how to make clothes, unsuccessfully (but there is some progress).

OLIVIA PERALTA

Executive Assistant

Olivia joined the Jigsaw family in September 2022. She serves as the executive assistant for Alex Gibney COO and Executive Vice President of Production.

Growing up just outside New York City, she considered herself lucky, having the best of both worlds. Before joining Jigsaw, she worked as a creative producer for Universal McCann and J3, creating branded content and commercials for brands such as J&J and Coca Cola. Outside of Jigsaw, Olivia is an independent film producer. Her most recent work, Sombras Nada Mas and No Es Mi Nombre, is currently making its rounds in international and national film festivals, with the latter having its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

She received her B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, double-majoring in film & economics, and recently her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Her goal is to create projects that not only offers an escape, but motivates others to open themselves to different viewpoints. 

YAÉL BERMUDEZ

Executive Assistant

Yaél joined the Jigsaw family in June 2024. She serves as the executive assistant for Alex Gibney. 

FREQUENT COLLABORATORS

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Blair Foster is a filmmaker who won two Emmys for her work on the Academy Award winning film, Taxi to the Dark Side as well as an Emmy for Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World. In 2017 she directed and produced, along with Alex Gibney, Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge for HBO. She also produced the Netflix documentary GET ME ROGER STONE which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Foster produced the Emmy nominated Sinatra: All or Nothing at All and the Peabody Award winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown both directed by Alex Gibney. She is the Executive Producer of The History of the Eagles as well as We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks. In 2012 Foster produced Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, part of the Peabody Award winning International Why Poverty series. She is the co-creator and director of The Conversation, seven short films about race published by the New York Times Op-Doc series. Blair attended graduate school for history and has a Master’s degree in documentary film from Stanford University.

Maryse Alberti is an award-winning cinematographer, with over twenty years of experience in both fiction and documentary filmmaking. Her work with Jigsaw includes Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, My Trip to Al-Qaeda and, most recently, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Outside of Jigsaw, Alberti’s credits include films such as When We Were Kings, Todd Solondz’s Happiness, Richard Linklater’s Tape and Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. In 1995, she won the Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival for her work on Terry Zwigoff’s documentary Crumb. She has also been honored with two Independent Spirit Awards-in 1999, for Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine, and in 2008, for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler.

Alison Ellwood’s feature film directing credits include American Jihad, History of the Eagles Parts 1 & 2, Spring Broke and Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place. Her television directing credits include “The Osbournes: The Price of Reality” for the A&E series Culture Shock, Locked In: The Victoria Arlen Story for ESPN’s 30 for 30 Shorts, CNN’s Death Row Stories, “No Limits” for ESPN’s Nine for IX series, The Human Behavior Experiments, the Emmy Award-winning series American High, The Travelers, and Sixteen. She has produced and edited several feature documentary films including Oscar-nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Catching Hell, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, My Trip to Al Qaeda, and Casino Jack and the United States of Money. She was co-producer for the feature documentary Finding Fela and for HBO’s Brett Killed Mom: A Sister’s Diary. She was consulting producer for the Sundance series Brick City and two feature documentaries The September Issue and Food Chains. She was supervising producer for The Residents and 30 Days. She has edited for Bill Moyers Specials, the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel, Showtime, and HBO’s America Undercover series. Ellwood is set to direct Laurel Canyon, a documentary feature produced by Jigsaw and Kennedy/Marshall Company.

Sloane Klevin, ACE has been an editor of films, television, commercials, music videos, and trailers for nearly 30 years. Her work with Jigsaw includes The Blues, Freakonomics, Taxi to the Dark Side, and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, for which she won the Emmy for best editing of a nonfiction program. Her other longform credits include the 2002 Sundance Audience Award winner Real Women Have Curves, Merchant Ivory’s Heights, Pumpkin, starring Christina Ricci, and Paramount’s Harriet the Spy. Sloane is an editor and partner at Union Editorial, a commercial post-production company with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Austin, and she produces films through Union Entertainment Group. She was an Adjunct Professor of Film Editing at Columbia University for ten years, and she is active on the advisory board of the Educational Video Center, which teaches inner-city youth the art and craft of documentary filmmaking. She’s served on the documentary juries of the Woodstock, Ashland and Sundance Film Festivals, and the Cinema Eye Awards. She has also edited at the Sundance Narrative Filmmaker’s Lab and was a 2015 mentor in the TFI/A&E Indiefilms StoryLab.

Team Members

Director Alex Gibney is called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine has a signature cinematic style that lends itself to penetrating, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries.

His work has been the recipient of an Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, several Peabody Awards, a Grammy Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award, The Independent Spirit Award and The Writers Guild Awards. Gibney was honored with the International Documentary Association’s Career Achievement Award in 2013 and the first-ever Christopher Hitchens Prize in 2015. He is the recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the News & Doc Emmys.

Gibney’s 2020 releases included: the well-received Crazy, Not Insane, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Agents of Chaos, a two-part documentary about Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections both for HBO, and Totally Under Control, a searing look at the administration’s failure to contain the COVID 19 pandemic released theatrically by Neon. In 2021, he directed the HBO two-part documentary, The Crime of the Century, which explored the origins, extent, and fallout of one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time, the opioid crises, and the Emmy-winning HBO documentaryThe Forever Prisoner (2021) which explored the chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), later identified as torture by those outside the agency. In 2022, Gibney’s two-part feature documentary, Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and is available on Apple TV+. In 2023, Gibney’s In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is now available on MGM+.

In 2024, Wise Guys: David Chase & The Sopranos, Gibney’s two-part series on David Chase and the iconic series, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2024 and is now available on HBO Max. The highly anticipated feature documentary The Bibi Files premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2024 and will be released later on this year.

Gibney is currently in production on the documentary Musk about the tech giant Elon Musk and “Knife,” a tentatively titled documentary inspired by Salman Rushdie’s memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” published in April.

Richard Perello oversees the production for all of Jigsaw’s film, television and podcast projects and the company’s business and finance operations.

He has been serving as an executive in the entertainment industry and has been producing award-winning studio and independent feature films and projects for network television for over 25 years (including Warner Bros, Searchlight Pictures, Paramount, HBO, Showtime, CNN, Amazon, Discovery, Epix, MGM+, STARZ, Netflix, Hulu, AMC, A&E, National Geographic, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, NBC Television, MTV, Saturday Night Live and the Coca Cola Company). 

His financial industry experience as an investment banker includes working with the New York firms Kidder, Peabody & Co and Benedetto, Gartland & Company in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Richard is an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Columbia University in the MFA program.

Razan Ghalayini heads the development of Jigsaw’s slate of non-fiction projects and is a two-time Emmy-nominated writer, director, and producer with experience, interest, and love for documentary storytelling and comedy.

Before joining Jigsaw, Razan was Co-Executive Producer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where she directed and produced over 70 segments across more than a dozen countries. She was also Co-Executive Producer on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.

In 2023, she wrote and directed Upsidedown, a short narrative film produced by Paul Feig that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Razan co-produced the feature documentaries Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma for HBO and We Are The Giant, about the activists leading the Arab Spring. Additionally, she directed Entrapped, a short documentary film that premiered at Sundance and investigated a high-profile unfair detention and entrapment case.

Sruthi is the head of audio production at Jigsaw helping to build the business, form strategic and creative alliances and develop and produce the Jigsaw audio slate. Her first love is investigative reporting.

Sruthi developed and produced the Jigsaw podcasts Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton with The Wall Street Journal and Jigsaw’s latest podcast Search Engine with PJ Vogt. Before arriving at Jigsaw, Sruthi reported and produced stories at Reply All, Radiolab, Marketplace, Studio 360, the BBC and The Economist.  Her favorite stories include ones about a prison blogger who claimed he’d been wrongly convicted of murder, a pet-obsessed YouTube celebrity caught in the cage of her own fame, and a small town in America that got taken over by a secretive political deal. She also helped develop the award-winning feature film Kumare. 

Sruthi grew up in Hyderabad, India, and has a master’s in broadcast journalism from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn and is mum to two loud boys.

Erin Edeiken is an award-winning producer at Jigsaw Productions in New York. Erin most recently produced two music docs at Jigsaw: In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (directed by Alex Gibney) and San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time (directed by Alison Ellwood and Anoosh Tertzakian). 

In 2021 she produced Gibney’s The Forever Prisoner, which won an Emmy for Best Investigative Doc.  Her previous work includes the Emmy-nominated films Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time (2020), The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley (2019) and Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015).  She was a Producer on Alex Gibney’s films Boom! Boom!  The World vs Boris Becker (2023), Citizen K (2019), and Crazy, Not Insane (2020) and has served as a Consulting Producer for HBO’s The Swamp (2020), Netflix’s Get Me Roger Stone (2017) and Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017).  Erin began her career in docs working for Martin Scorsese on HBO’s Public Speaking (2010) and the Emmy Award-winning film George Harrison: Living In the Material World (2011).

Beth Schniebolk oversees financial and administrative operations at Jigsaw Productions for both the company and its productions. She leads a team that supports all of Jigsaw’s corporate needs and is an integral part of the group that guides its films to the finish line.

Beth arrived at Jigsaw in 2014 with over 20 years of financial management experience in entertainment, media, and financial services including JP MorganChase, Tucker Anthony and Schroeder & Co. Prior to Jigsaw, Beth was a production accountant for television series and feature films, both scripted and unscripted productions, for major studios, networks and independent projects. In addition, she has assisted production companies to establish production finance departments.

Beth is a former board member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT); a nonprofit organization with over 2,000 members that champions women’s rights, achievements, and points of view in the film, television and new media industries. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.B.A. from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

Mahak Jiwani is a producer and development executive based in Los Angeles. She has worked on scripted and unscripted films and TV shows for HBO, Paramount+, ABC Signature and CBS.

Mahak’s credits include Cannes Films Festival selection JOYLAND, Emmy award winning documentary THE FOREVER PRISONER, and Venice film festival winning short film DARLING. Jiwani has produced films all over the world including US, Japan, Chile, and Pakistan. She is interested in telling stories that are entertaining and that reflect the world that we live in.

Mahak is a graduate of the Creative Producing program from Columbia University School of the Arts.

Raised in the mountains of Colorado and now based in Brooklyn, Sydney Kinsey has been with Jigsaw’s development team since 2021. Before joining Jigsaw, Sydney served as an Associate Producer on A&E’s First Blood and as Post-Production Assistant on Netflix’s Emmy nominated film The Great Hack, in addition to supporting development and series productions for a variety of networks. After earning a dual-degree in Journalism and Psychology at NYU, she has focused on the world of non-fiction storytelling through documentary. She is passionate about writing, reading, and watching movies.

Eric Mittan’s primary focus at Jigsaw, as Director of Technical Operations, is ensuring creative storytellers have the full use of all available tools (technical or otherwise) to express and communicate a wide range of ideas and emotions. He manages the post production process at Jigsaw as well as providing post production services on numerous Jigsaw projects. Eric joined Jigsaw in 2017 after eight years in broadcast journalism.

Eric Mittan graduated in 2004 from Nebraska Wesleyan University with two education degrees, and a passion for using technology for the creative exchange of ideas and knowledge.  Having slipped into a career in TV news, he spent 8 years as Chief Editor for the multi-award winning newsroom at WSIL-TV in Southern Illinois, helping the team earn the Illinois Broadcaster’s Association “Station of the Year” award for 3 consecutive years.  Having earned a break into the world of feature filmmaking, he moved to New York City in 2015 to join the engineering team at Light Iron, a division of Panavision.  Just 2 years later, he found the perfect blend of journalism and filmmaking at Jigsaw and jumped at the opportunity.  He and his wife live in Astoria, Queens and welcomed their first child, a daughter, in Fall 2022. 

Rahat Bathija joined Jigsaw’s Finance team in 2021 working on both corporate and feature film projects. His financial scope of work covers all stages of a project from development to delivery and ensuring financial accuracy.

Before Rahat started studying Accounting & Film his first exposure to Jigsaw Productions was during school where he watched his favorite documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room in three separate academic classes. After working at an asset management firm he moved onto his first entertainment industry role at Viacom where he served as a payroll and production accountant. He transitioned to Senior Programming Analyst focused on financial forecasting for MTV. He joined Jigsaw where he brought these existing experiences to complement and improve Jigsaw’s processes and is still learning and expanding his own skill sets.

Makia Martin is a Jigsaw Production Accountant working on feature film projects and corporate accounting for the company. She has been a part of the Jigsaw family for over 7 years. When Makia’s not accounting, she works as a writer and actor in film, television, theater, and the podcast world.

Her credits include Manifest, Law & Order:SVU, and Only Murders in the Building

Makia is incredibly proud of the work that Jigsaw Productions has contributed to the documentary space.

Carlos joined the Jigsaw Finance team as Accounting Clerk in 2022 to help support documentary projects and the corporate accounting team.

Carlos graduated from Hunter College in Urban Studies, Fine Arts and Media Studies. His experience includes internships at the Urban Justice Center, the Manhattan Borough President’s Office and Central Casting. In his free time, Carlos likes to explore the city, watch movies, paint and he is learning how to make clothes, unsuccessfully (but there is some progress).

Olivia joined the Jigsaw family in September 2022. She serves as the executive assistant for Alex Gibney COO and Executive Vice President of Production.

Growing up just outside New York City, she considered herself lucky, having the best of both worlds. Before joining Jigsaw, she worked as a creative producer for Universal McCann and J3, creating branded content and commercials for brands such as J&J and Coca Cola. Outside of Jigsaw, Olivia is an independent film producer. Her most recent work, Sombras Nada Mas and No Es Mi Nombre, is currently making its rounds in international and national film festivals, with the latter having its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

She received her B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, double-majoring in film & economics, and recently her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Her goal is to create projects that not only offers an escape, but motivates others to open themselves to different viewpoints. 

Yaél joined the Jigsaw family in June 2024. She serves as the executive assistant for Alex Gibney. 

FREQUENT COLLABORATORS

Coming Soon.