Development Team
McWilliams, Lisa
Executive Director
Executive Director and Founder of the Mobile Film School - Lisa was formerly the Festival Coordinator of the Lake Placid Film Forum. She has worked with Teleduction Associates as Producer and Director of Development. Independently, Lisa has been associate producer, co-producer and executive producer for television documentaries and independent features airing on PBS, A&E, The History Channel, Bravo, Sundance Channel and HGTV, as well as overseas. Most recently Lisa was the Executive Producer of the documentary, Before the Music Dies, and Associate Producer of, Disappearances, starring Kris Kristofferson.
In the late 80's, Lisa founded and ran Kindergym for 10 years. It was a school for toddlers and their parents, designed to help define and cultivate individual learning styles.
In the late 80's, Lisa founded and ran Kindergym for 10 years. It was a school for toddlers and their parents, designed to help define and cultivate individual learning styles.
lisa[at]mobilefilmschool.org
Mann, Kristina
Director of Business Affairs
Kristina Mann is partner and General Manager of Austin-based TricksterFilms. She holds an MBA from Texas State University and a B.S. in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, Kristina is co-producing the narrative documentary Weaving Worlds, and is Consulting Producer on the feature narrative My Monster. Kristina is Producer on the Sundance sponsored, 35mm short film Share the Wealth, and Producer on the feature narrative Relocation.
kristina[at]mobilefilmschool.org
Phillips, Patrick
Technical Director
Patrick has produced several independent documentary shorts including Where There Is A Will… There Will Be A Living Wage on the movement for a living wage at Texas A&M University and the struggle of the University’s lowest paid workers, and The Cost of War, which examines the human, personal, social and psychological costs of war through the perspective of soldiers, veterans and military families. He also produces educational videos for Texas A&M University and the Texas Education Agency.
patrick[at]mobilefilmschool.org
Sobel, Laura
Director of Educational Programing
Laura Sobel is a New York-based documentary television producer/writer. She has produced programs for A&E, the Biography Channel the History Channel, and VH1/MTV Networks. As a development writer, her credits include film treatments and series proposals for PBS, HBO, National Geographic, Bravo, Discovery-Times Television, HGTV, Outdoor Life Network and the Weather Channel. Most recently, Laura directed, produced, wrote Cereal: History in a Bowl, a pop culture pilot for the History. She has just completed scripts for A&E Biography programs on Calamity Jane and Catherine the Great, and is currently working on a feature-length documentary entitled Broken Lines: The Story of Eugene Andolsek. In addition to her production efforts, Laura also teaches Documentary Research, Production Fundamentals, and Interviewing for Camera at DCTV, a community television center in New York.
laura[at]mobilefilmschool.org
