AdeRisa Productions

WE SHIFT PARADIGMS

AdeRisa Productions is a California Limited Liability Company founded by in July 2012 on Chumash lands (Ventura, CA). We have primarily worked on Tongva and Chumash lands.

In October 2012, our indie company went into short film production. We produced Forgiving Heart (written & directed by Adelina Anthony) and we Executive Produced The Good Kind (written & directed by Ofelia Yánez).

We invest in stories and characters living at the intersections of race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, spirituality, and much more. We know our character-driven films represent the beauty, complexity, brilliance, nuance, and resilience of our communities.

We hope our films help foster critical dialogue in the home, online, amongst friends and strangers, and, especially, in classrooms where the next generation is sharpening their minds, hearts, and skillsets.

We always welcome young and emerging talent. And we continue to work with professionals from our communities—in front of and behind the camera. We always aim to create intergenerational production sets.

We support our teams with a sustainable work model. The majority of our production days do not to exceed 10 hours of work; and we feed our teams well during our one-hour lunch break.

Our production sets avidly stand against racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, classism, and any other behavior that disrupts the harmony and purpose of our work together. For this reason, we interview everyone who joins our production sets (references matter). During our interviews, all parties are made aware of the purpose of our work and the expected co-creation of a space grounded in respect, reciprocity, rigor, and shared values.

Since 2012, we have maintained the presence of our Spiritual Elder on set, nancy Chargualaf martin. Chargualaf begins our productions with ritual to honor the land and its original native peoples. We take time to acknowledge everyone in our gathered circle. Moreover, Chargualaf is a Reike and licensed physical massage therapist who cares for our crews and cast during production with traditional medicines. Our actors are never allowed to leave our sets after an emotionally triggering scene without first being grounded back into their bodies.

As Xicanx peoples we aim for our process together to be as healing as the medicine intended for our cinematic offerings. At least this is always the prayer.

We our thankful to all of our production sets that have allowed us to gather and grow with them. We give thanks to our ancestors, our collaborators, our communities, and our grant funders who invest in our vision and evolving praxis.