Featured FILM Projects
A Deeper Love:
The Story of Miss Peppermint
A FILM BY ORIEL PE’er
An award-winning documentary following trans performer, activist, drag queen, and LGBTQ+ icon, Miss Peppermint, who made history as the first out trans woman to compete on the wildly popular reality TV series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and originate a role on Broadway. The film follows Peppermint over nearly a decade and delves deep into rare transformative moments of her life, offering an intimate glimpse into her journey of triumph, resilience, and self-discovery. (86 minutes)
Credits: Writer, director, producer
Production Company: The Llama Studio
www.adeeperlovefilm.com
Prince Before Fame (Time)
1977, Minneapolis.
Prince is getting ready for his very first photo shoot with a professional photographer. Robert Whitman, a photographer, recalls stories about Prince when he was younger, long before he became a legend.
Credits: Director, cinematographer, editor
Production Company: The Llama Studio
Published on TIME.
CUBA RAW (NOWNESS)
For a number of years throughout the late 1990s, photographer Robert Whitman documented Cuba in a way that captured an up-close-and-personal vision of the country's varied inhabitants and visitors. In Cuba Raw, a new short documentary by director Oriel Pe’er, the American lensman recounts his love affair with the Caribbean island nation.
Credits: Director, cinematographer, editor
Production Company: The Llama Studio
A short editorial profile for Artnet featuring New York art dealer Georges Bergès, exploring his approach to collecting, his focus on overlooked and non-traditional artists, and his belief that looking back is essential to moving culture forward.
Credits: Director, cinematographer, editor
Production Company: The Llama Studio
Georges Bergés (artnet)
BE FAKE (A.I. FilM)
Experimental A.I. film combining filmed footage about authenticity, performance, and the seductive instability of synthetic images. Using generative tools as both medium and subject, the film explores what happens when identity becomes something we can fabricate, distort, and endlessly reinvent.
Credits: Director, cinematographer, editor, Gen-AI
Production Company: The Llama Studio