Our Team
Nick Davis
Nick Davis is a filmmaker and writer. His most recent film was ONCE UPON A TIME IN QUEENS, for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series. He Executive Produced the Emmy-Award winning THE COMEBACK: 2004 BOSTON RED SOX for Netflix. Among his other films are “Ted Williams: ‘The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived,’” for PBS’ American Masters series, Blood, Sweat + Gears, a documentary about a cycling team devoted to cleaning up its scandal-ridden sport, Jack: The Last Kennedy Film, an Emmy-Award winning portrait of John F. Kennedy, and the acclaimed dark comedy 1999, starring Jennifer Garner, Dan Futterman, Amanda Peet, Buck Henry, Timothy Olyphant, and Stephen Wright.
In 2001, he formed Nick Davis Productions, which has produced over 80 hours of non-fiction and documentary programming for outlets such as A&E, Bravo, History Channel, Sundance Channel, TLC, and more. The company has also produced over 300 videos and films for corporate, non-profit and other private clients. He began in film as an intern on Ken Burns’ Baseball.
Nick’s first novel, Boone (with Brooks Hansen), was a NY Times notable book of the year in 1990. His recent book about his grandfather and great-uncle, COMPETING WITH IDIOTS: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait, was shortlisted for the LA Times book prize as biography of the year in 2021.
Davis performed with Gotham City Improv and You And What Army, and graduated from Harvard, where he was one of the founders of the improv group On Thin Ice. He lives in NYC with Jane Mendelsohn and their two amazing daughters.
Jane Mendelsohn
Jane Mendelsohn is a novelist, screenwriter, and producer. Born and raised in New York City, Jane is a graduate of Yale, where she was a Connecticut Student Poet. After attending Yale Law School for a year and a half, she left to pursue writing. She began publishing book reviews in the Village Voice in 1990. Since then, her pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, and the London Review of Books.
Her first novel, I Was Amelia Earhart, was published by Knopf in 1996 to widespread critical acclaim. It became a New York Times bestseller, was translated into many languages, was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 1997, and long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award in 1998. She has written four novels in addition to screenplays and theater scripts. Her most recent book, Burning Down the House, was published by Knopf in 2016. After years of working informally on each other’s projects, Jane and Nick formed Series of Dreams in 2025.
Mark Rosenberg
Mark Rosenberg is an award winning director and producer of commercials, music videos, promos, independent films, and documentaries.
He is currently producing/directing Brooklyn Center, a feature-length documentary about a town in Minnesota that is torn apart after the shooting of Dante Wright by a police officer, Kim Potter. Rosenberg continues his partnership with long-time collaborator Nick Davis, most recently with their documentary Mud Man, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival for Meadowlark Media, and with the tenth installment of their annual documentary series, Eight Over Eighty for the The New Jewish Home. In 2016, he started 16lamberts, a full service production company based in New York City which serves non-profits, corporate brands, and media networks. His past clients include Walt Disney, CBS, Participant Media, Toyota, Subaru, PGIM, Stella Artois, and Brown University.
Josh Freed
Josh Freed is a filmmaker with over a decade of experience in film and television.
Freed recently edited the Series of Dreams documentary, THIS ORDINARY THING. Previously, he edited ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary, Once Upon a Time in Queens with Emmy-winning Producer/Director Nick Davis. Freed also edited Nick Davis’s Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived,” for PBS American Masters. Freed’s feature length documentary, 5 Weddings and a Felony, which he wrote, directed, shot and edited, is available on iTunes and Verizon Fios VOD. The film premiered at the IFC Center in DOC NYC, and Indiewire’s review called it “A DIY relationship comedy set in the real world…undoubtedly entertains.”
Doug Abel
Doug Abel, ACE, BFE, has been a film editor and principal creative force of such major documentary features as: Errol Morris' Oscar-winning “The Fog of War,” for which Doug was also nominated for an American Cinema Editor award; the Independent Spirit Award-winner “Some Kind of Monster”; and “Manda Bala,” which won the Sundance Grand Jury Documentary prize as well as a Cinema Eye Honor Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing. His work on Netflix’s Covid-era “Tiger King” resulted in one of the most-watched documentary series ever, as well as a cultural phenomenon. Reuniting with that team in 2024, Doug helped shape HBO’s “Chimp Crazy” into the network's most successful nonfiction series in years.
Wolfgang Held
Wolfgang Held ASC has been traveling the globe, exploring his passion for documentary and fiction filmmaking. He has photographed many award winning documentaries, TV series and movies among them Brüno, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, the Netflix series The Warhol Diaries, nominated for an Emmy in Cinematography, the Oscar-winning fiction short, The Neighbor’s Window and the upcoming IMAX documentary SAIL.
This Stolen Country of Mine, a documentary he filmed in the mountains of Ecuador, was nominated by his ASC peers for best documentary cinematography in 2023.
Held has won multiple camera awards including an Emmy for his camerawork on th PBS series The Carrier. He is a founding member of the Kamerakollektiv, a group of New York cameramen/women who share their love for cinematic, socially-conscious filmmaking. He is a member of the ASC, AMPAS, IATSE/600, BAFTA and the TV Academy and has an MFA in Film. He owns his camera and lighting gear and loves to travel.
Kinder Labatt
Kinder Labatt is a Canadian writer, producer, and filmmaker known for her sharp wit and exploration of gender and political themes through satire and comedy. She has produced a diverse range of projects—narrative shorts, documentaries, and stop-motion animations—that have been showcased at film festivals worldwide.
Her debut short film, Free Pot, inspired by the early silent film era, premiered at the 2018 Crown Heights Film Festival in Brooklyn, NY.Her original pilot script, REALITY, won the inaugural Charles J. Brucia Award at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2019. Kinder’s MFA thesis film, Bag Lady, earned the Topic Studios Award for Excellence in Producing and was featured as a case study in Maureen Ryan’s Producer to Producer (3rd Edition). The film is currently being developed into both a feature and a stage musical.
In 2023, she received the Best Horror Script prize from William Goldstein for her genre-bending comedy horror feature, Miss Death, which she plans to bring to the big screen. She has also received several prestigious production grants from organizations including Indian Paintbrush, Phil Johnston, and the Sloan Foundation.
Kinder’s recent producing credits include the 2025 Toronto Film Critics Awards and the upcoming documentary You Had to Be There.
Jack Mankiewicz
Jack Mankiewicz is a filmmaker from Los Angeles, currently based in New York City. For over a decade, he’s been making documentaries and films, overseeing every stage of the process from development to production to post.
He got his start producing One For All for Nick Davis Productions, a film celebrating Harvard Fencing’s 125th anniversary, and has since worked on a wide range of projects with Emmy and Oscar-winning collaborators. His notable credits include Once Upon a Time in Queens, the 30 for 30 documentary on the 1986 Mets, and The Captain, ESPN’s multi-part series on Derek Jeter, both of which aired to critical acclaim. Most recently, he produced and shot a documentary about minor league baseball in Colorado. For Jack, film is the ultimate storytelling medium, and he is always on the lookout for new characters and ideas to prove it.