The Sum of Our Parts Team
Roseanne Malfucci | Director, Participant
Roseanne Malfucci is an advocate for equity and access, using personal stories to illuminate macro issues for marginalized people. She began her career at an intimate violence non-profit, and deejayed parties for every D-list celebrity in noughties NYC. Her previous roles include coaching tech execs and managing the platform build of the largest global LGBTQ rights organization on the web. Roseanne has presented at conferences like Lesbians Who Tech and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and keeps restorative justice circles with other survivors of child sexual abuse. She lives in the Hudson Valley, where she constantly rearranges furniture with her partner Kelly and their chihuahua-cattle dog mix Wylie.
Claire Ave’Lallemant | Editor
Claire (she/her) is a queer documentary editor who chose to forgo the traditional college path in favor of a grassroots, hands-on education, beginning as an assistant editor on Memories of a Penitent Heart (POV). She has gone on to become a Karen Schmeer Film Editing fellow and Sundance Institute Documentary Edit Residency Artist recognized for “embracing new forms of storytelling and finding new language to express personal truths.” Her credits include Flipside (TIFF) and Drowning in Silence (SBIFF), series such as Choir (Disney+) and The Pharmacist (Netflix), and shorts Translators (Tribeca) and Final Finishers (ESPN+)
Christie Herring | Post-Supervision Producer
Christie (she/her) is an award-winning filmmaker with a focus on the practice and poetry of change. Her Directing work includes feature documentaries THE CAMPAIGN (PBS, New Day Films) and SINGING FOR JUSTICE (PBS, GoodDocs). Editing and Producing collaborations include CODE: DEBUGGING THE GENDER GAP (Producer, Editor – Tribeca), THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD (Editor, Co-Producer – Hulu, HotDocs), 23 MILE (Producer – True/False), THE POINT OF NO RETURN (Editor - PBS), and ONE PERSON ONE VOTE (Co-Producer, Consulting Editor – PBS, GoodDocs). Post Producing includes SILENT BEAUTY and NORTH BY CURRENT. Christie is a Member and former Chair of New Day Films and received her MA in Filmmaking from Stanford University.
Jules Rosskam | Consulting Producer
Jules Rosskam is an award-winning filmmaker and educator. He was named a 2021 Creative Capital Awardee for his latest film, DESIRE LINES, which premiered at Sundance—and won the Jury Award in the NEXT category—in 2024. The film has gone on to win six additional jury awards at festivals all over the world. He is also the director of the award-winning films, DANCE, DANCE, EVOLUTION (Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center 2019), PATERNAL RITES (Doc Fortnight 2018), SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT (Maryland Film Festival 2018), AGAINST A TRANS NARRATIVE (BFI Flare 2009), and TRANSPARENT (Frameline LGBT Film Festival 2005).
Zackary Drucker | Executive Producer
Zackary Drucker is an Emmy nominated director for the HBO documentary The Stroll (2023), and an Emmy nominated producer for the docuseries This Is Me (2015). She was a producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show Transparent (2014 - 2019) and produced the film Biosphere (Duplass Brothers Productions / IFC, 2022). The Lady and The Dale, her 4-part series and directorial debut for television, premiered on HBO in 2021; it was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2022. The Stroll won a Peabody Award in 2024 and a Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision at Sundance 2023. Her standalone directorial feature QUEENMAKER: The Making of an It Girl was released on Hulu in May 2023. Her latest documentary feature, Enigma, debuted at Sundance 2025 and premiered on HBO worldwide in June.
Dana Variano | Communications
Dana Variano (they/them) is an artist and digital communications producer and strategist. With more than 17 years of experience in the communications space from New York to Los Angeles, Dana works closely with creators, issue advocates, and community organizers to design and implement digital marketing to create meaningful offline impact. Under the handle @felttipfeelings, Dana shares pen and ink artwork that focuses on themes of connection, gender, and mental health. As a community organizer and leader of art workshops, Dana’s focus is on building creative connections. They live in Poughkeepsie, NY with their cat Rigatoni.
Jules Eddy | Associate Editor
Jules Eddy is an assistant editor and recent graduate of Vassar College. They stumbled into documentary filmmaking in the summer of 2017 and have been unable to free themselves since. They’ve managed to stick their fingers in every flavor of non-fiction pie, from student films to docuseries, instructional videos to features. As an educator on gender and sexuality since highschool, Jules sees their work in terms of social impact first. In all of their creative endeavors, they value empathy, transparency, and a rebellious spirit.
Sarah Rachael Wainio | Producer
Sarah Rachael Wainio (she/her) is a documentary producer and nonfiction television director whose credits include The Food Network, TLC, MTV, Netflix, and Max. She earned an MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts. Sarah is Secretary of the board of the Documentary Producers Alliance and co-chairs the ethics subcommittee. She lives in NYC with her cats Theodora and Tovah.
Rose Vincelli Gustine | Co-Producer
Rose (she/her) has fifteen years experience as a film advisor and programmer, with a specialty in emerging filmmakers. She is Director of Operations and on the faculty of SVA’s MFA Social Documentary Film program. She co-produced the feature documentaries Busy Inside (dir. Olga Lvoff; DOC NYC 2019; PBS America Reframed 2020 broadcast) and Dykes, Camera, Action! (dir. Caroline Berler; Outfest 2018), and has consulting produced several other films. She was previously a programmer for many years for the seminal Independent Filmmaker Project; managing the IFP Labs for first features, as well as IFP Film Week - a market for works-in-progress. She got her start as a programmer for the AFIDocs Festival, and has served on the selection committees for the Venice Biennale Cinema College; the Southern Circuit Tour; NEA and NYFA grant review committees; and on the juries of the SXSW, Brooklyn, and New Orleans Film Festivals. She lives, walks, and cooks with her family in Brooklyn.
