Meet Rebecca Stern, a producer, and director of documentary films. She has absolutely soared in her career since one of her first jobs as a Production Coordinator on the Oscar-nominated feature documentary Cartel Land. Her directorial debut Well Groomed is now streaming on HBO. Rebecca is open, humble, and just a delight to be around.

Our appointed contributors for Feature & a short are asked to choose one short and one feature, and they have to have been involved with one of them but not the other. Rebecca brings the sleeper success Snowy. This documentary short is about a pet turtle named Snowy whose owners embark on a journey to find what would make him happy. We have a discussion about funding short films, and what Rebeca thinks needs to evolve about that process.

The feature is The Thin Blue Line, a film Rebecca had never seen - though she has worked on films about the legal system and incarceration in the US.