Our Team
Roseanne Malfucci | Director & Participant
Roseanne (she/her) is a life-long advocate for equity and access, using her own stories to illuminate macro issues for marginalized people. Roseanne launched her career in the early 00s, tackling family and intimate partner violence in the non-profit sector. In 2009 she landed at a tech startup, managed the build of campaigning platform All Out—the largest global LGBTQ rights organization on the web—and went on to lead change management for tech teams at international human rights groups and Fortune 500 companies. Roseanne has presented at conferences like Grace Hopper: Women In Computing and Lesbians Who Tech, and authors pieces on outsider identity and contradiction for Medium and Refinery 29. She has written on topics like grappling with queer visibility as a cis person with a trans partner, learning to accept her breasts, and negotiating privilege in the workplace. A native Brooklynite, Roseanne spent much of her young adulthood as a DJ, playing to crowds of hundreds alongside the likes of Margaret Cho, Christian Siriano, and every queer D-list celebrity in noughties New York City. The Sum of Our Parts is Roseanne’s directorial debut and has been supported by NYSCA, DocNYC Only In New York 2019, UnionDocs Summer Lab 2020, and The Gotham 2020. Roseanne lives in the Hudson Valley, where she constantly rearranges furniture with her partner Kelly and their chihuahua-cattle dog mix Wylie.
Sarah Rachael Wainio | Producer
Sarah Rachael Wainio (she/her) is one of the industry’s most sought after storytellers. Her credits include The Food Network, Magnolia Network, Netflix, TLC, and HBO. She produced the first three seasons of MTV’s seminal show “Teen Mom: Young + Pregnant”; bringing the real-life consequences of unplanned teen pregnancy to a national audience. Sarah produced both of the queer stories on Young + Pregnant. She earned an MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts and has a degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Fordham University. Sarah is Secretary of the board of the Documentary Producers Alliance and co-chairs the ethics task force. She lives in NYC with her cats Theodora and Tovah.
Claire Ave’Lallemant | Editor
Claire Ave'Lallemant (she/her) is a queer documentary editor who chose to forgo the traditional college path and pursue hands-on education which she received as an assistant editor on Cecilia Aldarondo’s debut feature, MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART (Tribeca 2016 & POV 2017). She credits this film for introducing her to the sheer power of the medium to reach into hearts and change minds. In 2018, Claire was nominated and selected to participate in the inaugural year of Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship's Diversity In The Edit Room mentorship program. After assisting on several features, she has gone on to edit series such as CHOIR (Tribeca 2023 & Disney+ 2024), THE PHARMACIST (Netflix 2020) and DOGS (Netflix 2018 & 2021). Her recent feature projects include FLIPSIDE (Toronto 2023) and DROWNING IN SILENCE (Santa Barbara 2022).
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.
Charrow | Illustrator
Charrow is a trans non-binary illustrator and designer residing in Brooklyn. They have been drawing since they could incorrectly hold a crayon. Their work includes a line of greeting cards, animal portraits, licensing illustration work to Design House Greetings, Amnesty International, Flatiron Investors, and they have a children's book coming out in 2021 through Candlewick Press. They currently work as a print and pattern designer for a celebrity home goods brand and spend their weekends hanging out with their pit bull.
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.
Rachel Frank | Graphic Designer
Rachel Frank is a multidisciplinary graphic designer, working in Manhattan and living in New Jersey. She graduated in 2016 from Maryland Institute College of Art with a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and a concentration in Animation. Rachel has worked on a broad range of design projects spanning from the sneaker industry, to packaging design, and brand design. She looks to use design as a communication tool for storytelling, awareness, and promoting social change.
