The Tiny Movements Team
Laura Sweeney is a screenwriter, director, and actress. Laura’s writing credits include, Mommy Mafia, Solstice and Lost + Found. She created and starred in the webseries: The Mothership and Theater Bitches. Laura has directed several award-winning short films, including The Neck, Across, and Tina. Her first documentary, Tiny Movements, premiers this June at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. Laura is a member of SAG- AFTRA, Georgetown Entertainment Media Alliance (GEMA), and a Co-Leader of FILMSHOP South Brooklyn Chapter. Laura has taught screenwriting for Writers Boot Camp and Open Screenplay. She studied acting with the Moscow Art Theatre and is a graduate of Georgetown University.
Jenn (Green) Wilenta has had a lifelong love of dance, including a deep appreciation for the many ways it can nurture and inspire the individual and the collective. Jenn experiences her life as a dance, an often circular, rarely linear pathway. Her three-year “tinykitchendances” dance project, which was the inspiration for the “Tiny Movements” documentary, can be found on Instagram. She trained as a dancer at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has studied and performed at the Bates College Dance Festival. She has also worked as an early childhood educator for over 20 years, guiding nursery and kindergarten classes at Waldorf schools in Brooklyn, Wilton, and Keene, New Hampshire, and Asheville, North Carolina. She particularly enjoys creating children’s yoga curriculums. Jenn finds real satisfaction in living in the world, parenting her 16 and 19-year-olds, collecting handmade pottery, and rarely choosing easy (but always choosing joy). She plans to return to school for a master's in social work and eventually work as a therapist, using her many years of dance, art, and educational tools to support children and families.
Jennifer Wilenta
Producer
Michelle Botticelli is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Film and Television. She has edited feature films which have competed at Berlinale, SXSW, TriBeCa, TIFF and Slamdance, including most recently CRSHD, written and directed by Emily Cohn. She has also edited TV shows for MTV, VH1, ANIMAL PLANET, CMT and NAT GEO, as well as for APPLE TV+ on HELPSTERS. In 2004 she produced her first feature film, Falling for Grace, which she also edited. She also produced and edited Stephen Elliot’s acclaimed After Adderall along with many short films. She directed her first short film in 2014, which went to several festivals.Michelle is a member of IATSE / MOTION PICTURE EDITORS / LOCAL 700
Janine has served as an executive director of nonprofits for over 30 years, providing a basis for consulting in the areas of community outreach, strategic planning, and executive coaching. She has worked throughout the US, including Albuquerque, NM, New York, NY, and Boise, ID, primarily focusing on sustainable growth for small nonprofits. She was born and raised in Seattle, where she started her career at Pacific Science Center as a high school intern.
She earned a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Washington.
She enjoys nature, particularly the beaches around her home in Port Townsend and alpine skiing. She adores and is inspired by her adult daughter, who works in adaptive sports, getting people of all backgrounds and abilities outside. Janine has adopted the term All Forward from the high adventure world of whitewater rafting. All Forward is a command to everyone in the boat, signaling all paddles are needed in the water and pulling forward to everyone’s full capacity. The term conveys inclusivity, future downstream focus, and most importantly, the urgent need of pulling together to navigate these very complex times.
Joseph Overbey is a Brooklyn-based cinematographer and motion picture colorist whose work celebrates the interplay of light, color and the human experience. With a diverse portfolio spanning narrative, documentary and experimental films, Joseph brings a distinctive aesthetic style shaped by a lifelong love of visual storytelling to his collaborations. His approach is driven by a deep curiosity about life, culture and the dynamic world we live in.
As Director of Photography, Joseph has lensed several independent narrative and documentary films, featured at prestigious festivals, including the San Diego Independent Filmmakers' Festival, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Fantasia and Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival. His commercial work includes collaborations with notable clients such as ARTE, Communiqué Magazine and others.
A 2024 Filmshop Breakthrough Fellow, Joseph has been an active member of this nonprofit collective of independent filmmakers since 2018. In 2020, he was selected for Filmshop Studio, Brooklyn’s first cooperative film studio and has served as co-leader of the North Brooklyn workshop group (2021~2022).
Currently, Joseph is in post-production on his debut documentary feature, The Spirit of Japan, an intimate exploration of a family-run shochu distillery in rural Southern Japan, capturing their craft and daily life with poetic grace.
TOUVE R. Ratovondrahety is the organist of the famous historical monument Great Organ Merklin-Shütz (I855) in Paris (Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile Church, Paris IX)
He is a pianist in residence at the Paris Opera. He plays for the Ballet Classes of the Paris Opera Ballet (Palais Garnier & Opera Bastille). Touve R. Ratovondrahety is also music partner to Fugue Europera ( a former LVMH Group). He won the "Premier Prix" of organ and chamber music at the end of his studies at the Conservatoire d'Orléans (France)
His concerts Hot Piano Fantasies deliver an amazing improvised performance mixing blues, etchnical music, rock, and classical music.
Touve performed in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Finland, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, and in Prague. He also takes part in the worldwide tours of the Paris Opera: USA, Australia, China, Japan, and Brazil. In August 2013, he performed one of his creations for ballet music in Buenos Aires. He presently recorded 15 CD albums featuring various types of music, as a solo artist or a group (published by Sony, Bayard Music, Studio SM and Musicbytouve)
He went on a European tour with French actor and director Jacques Weber as a musician-actor. Touve also had a small part in a movie with French actress Valérie Lemercier, and also made an appearance in the anniversary video of FR3. He composed the soundtrack of the movie Dixit by Leslie Villiaume, which was presented at the Cannes Festival in 2012.
In October 2012, one of his creations for choir and orchestra was performed at the International Silent Film Festival in Pordenone, Italy, accompanying the movie The Passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodor Dreyer. For Gaumont, he recorded the complete piano works of Louis Rabeaud, accompanying the movie The Miracle of the Wolves by Raymond Bernard (DVD – Collection Prestige Gaumont released in November 2012). He composed and performed the music of the DVD series : Les cours de danse prestigieux de l’Opéra de Paris, produced by Dance Magazine (Japan).
He is also the artistic director of Films en Concert in Lambersart (North of France) since its creation.
Declan McIntosh has worked in music video production throughout Los Angeles and is now a Licensing Coordinator at Concord, where he supports music clearance and sync licensing efforts across film, TV, and digital media.
Declan McIntosh
Music Supervisor
Diana Yanez is the creator behind the Off-Broadway hit Latina Christmas Special (also starring Maria Russell and Sandra Valls), a Los Angeles Times 'Critic’s Choice' since 2015 with ten sold-out seasons. Her solo show, Viva La Evolución, earned the 'Excellence for Solo Show' award at the New York International Fringe Festival and is in development for a multi-character musical with lyricist Marjorie Duffield of the Oscar-nominated animated film, Over The Moon (Netflix). A first-generation American from Miami—the other Cuba—Diana is also a filmmaker, director, artist, and stand-up comic. She's toured with Margaret Cho, Cyndi Lauper, Rosie O’Donnell, and The Gay Mafia among others. Currently, Diana is Co-Artistic Director of Podcast Theater Company, launching in Fall 2024. Diana serves on the Executive Committee Board of Honor Roll!, a grassroots advocacy group of 2000+ members for the increased representation of women+ playwrights over 40 and their allies, recently honored with a Lily Award for their impactful work.
Diana Yanez
Associate Editor/Titles & Graphics Design