magna studios Team Members

Haley Elizabeth Anderson is a filmmaker, writer, and photo-based visual artist from Houston, Texas. She recently graduated from New York University’s Graduate Film Program as a Dean’s Fellow. Her work often explores coming-of-age experiences, race, and the ever-growing class divide often in a documentary/narrative hybrid aesthetic.

Haley was selected as a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Intensive Fellow and for the TFI All Access Program and received the SFF Westridge Foundation’s screenwriting grant. She attended the 2019 IFP Week No Borders Program for Coyote Boys in New York as well as the Sundance/Ucross Foundations Residency for Spring 2020. She was also selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”

Her ongoing project, Gulf Tones, a photography and three-channel film installation, had a summer-long run at the Shed in New York in 2019. Her short film Pillars premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and recently won the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival. Haley’s work has also been featured in I-D Magazine, No Budge, Le Cinema Club, The New York Times, Vimeo, Rooftop Films, and the Barbican in London. Coyote Boys will be her first feature film. 

Half Persian, half Welsh, born and raised in Austria, “DAV” is an EMMY, BAFTA and CANNES LIONS winning producer and the \President at PULSE FILMS, now based in Los Angeles, CA. Pulse Films, a proud part of the Vice Media Group, is a next-generation film production company with a global footprint that produces both ADVERTISING and ENTERTAINMENT as well as everything in between. Across 2020/21 Pulse Films have been awarded PRODUCTION COMPANY OF THE YEAR by SHOTS, LBB, The British Arrows, ADC and Campaign Magazine, and finished runner up at the Cannes Lions Palme D’Or, Global Production Company Ranking. Last year the Pulse Films produced Nike commercial was one of the most awarded films winning the Cannes Lions Film Grand Prix and EMMY, While apple “Bounce” collected the Grand Prix at the ADC and British Arrows. Aside from all the recent award winning Commercial output Pulse FILMS go from strength to strength in longform, recently released the EMMY nominated BEASTIE BOYS STORY (directed by Spike Jonze), MOGUL MOWGLI (starring Riz Ahmed), PIG (starring Nicholas Cage) as well as the critically acclaimed SKY TV Show GANGS OF LONDON.