The Updates
We are pleased to announce that production company, Mirmade, is signing on as the official company behind The Bitch Diaries. Mirmade is the brainchild of coveted producer, Miranda Kahn. We are so excited to collaborate on this project with an EP and company that are so focused on women’s empowerment!
Check out Mirmade’s website.
Check out Mirmade’s website.
June 15, 2022
The Team
Marielle Boland - Writer/Director/EP
Marielle Boland was born in her bathtub in Berkeley, CA 24 years ago. She has had a lifelong passion for filmmaking because to her, it’s the only true form of magic. After losing her loved ones at a young age, she realized how valuable memories are, which cemented her urge to use film as a way to tell stories that don’t go away. Marielle has always had a passion to amplify hushed voices through her work.
Starting in high school. Marielle’s films have been circulating and winning in the festival circuit. She graduated from UCLA’s film program in 2019 upon completing her senior thesis film Supernova, which includes themes of female friendship, mental health, and grief. After graduation, she stayed in Los Angeles and started working in production at various companies, learning more about the industry.
Currently, she’s living in New York directing music videos, shooting fashion photos, and working on her soon-to-be anthology series, The Bitch Diaries. Marielle’s videos have been featured in publications such as Nylon, Paper Magazine, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, and her film Supernova is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
Check out Marielle’s work on Free the Work or her website.
Miranda Kahn - EP/Mirmade Founder
Miranda Kahn is the Founder, CEO, and Executive Producer of MIRMADE. She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in three and a half years with multiple areas of study in Music, Film, and Communications. She began her career working for Marty Bowen and on-set network television programs such as HBO’s Girls, ABC’s Forever, and Bradley Cooper’s Limitless, gaining experience across the board in wardrobe, art, and production. She quickly made her way up to management and producorial positions in the indie film landscape, first as an Assistant Director and eventually as a Production Manager, earning a spot in the DGA and taking projects to the Emmys, Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca, SXSW & many more. In 2018 she began producing commercials and music videos, and in 2019 she founded MIRMADE, a female-run boutique production company.
Miranda has produced for Oscar-winners Eli Bush and Molly Conners, Grammy-winners Lady Gaga, H.E.R., Nas, Arcade Fire, and for A24, Apple, Planned Parenthood, HBO, Vice & many others. She is incredibly prolific in her scope and scale of work and aims to use her experience to empower young female filmmakers.
Miranda also runs a podcast called Under the Sea, where she interviews women in the entertainment industry. Aside from work, Miranda plays the bass, loves live music, and spent 4 1/2 months volunteering at a hospital in Harlem.
Learn more about Miranda and Mirmade here.
Learn more about Miranda and Mirmade here.
Emma Buerklin - EP/Producer
Emma Buerklin is a German-born, Los Angeles-based producer. She is focused primarily on narrative and music video work, while also engaging in her fair share of commercial and television production. She approaches each project with acute attention to detail and care, working closely with directors to bring their vision to life as they see it.
Most recently Emma produced music videos for Panic! At The Disco. Before that, she completed The Crew League - Season 3 and the feature film My Divorce Party, both as Unit Production Manager. My Divorce Party is written and directed by Heidi Weitzer, starring Rumer Willis, Michelle Meredith (The Morning Show), and Kimia Behpoornia (Atypical). Emma is in post-production for Johanna Block’s debut feature Who Am I? starring Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why), Brandon Flynn (13 Reasons Why), and Hari Nef (Assassination Nation). She is currently in production on location in North Carolina for an upcoming feature film.
Emma has produced for the likes of John Legend, Miley Cyrus, Deftones, Joji, Charlie Puth, Julia Michaels, and Vince Staples, and collaborated with Leigh Whannell, Stink Films, Pulse Films, Warner Records, Atlantic Records, and Capitol Records. Her commercial sphere work includes Snapchat, Facebook, LG, Mike Tyson, and more.
Check out Emma’s work on her website.
Iris Lee - Director of Photography
Iris Lee grew up between California’s Bay Area and Southeast Asia documenting childhood tales with her dad’s VHS camcorder. She’s now living in Los Angeles with a fancier camera, but with the same passion for telling stories.
Her narrative and music video work has garnered hundreds of thousands of views online and published on The Fader, Summerfest, and on Amazon Prime. She was selected as a Cinematography Fellow at the Television Academy in 2017, invited for the inaugral AFI Women’s Cinematography intensive in 2018, and is an alum of the Academy Gold’s Diversity Inclusion program. Additionally, Iris’s selected work was awarded a US Artists Initiative grant in 2020 and named Best Cinematography in the Narrative category in 2021 LACA.
As Iris updates her website, check her out on IG.
Sophia Loren Heriveaux - Co Producer
Sophia Loren Heriveaux is a director-producer based in New York City and has created content of all kinds.
In 2022, Sophia premiered two films at Tribeca Film Festival — VODKA directed by Roxy Sorkin starring Iris Apatow and Alexis G. Zall, and CHICKEN directed by Josh Leong. Additionally in 2022, Sophia was the co-producer of an interactive Web3 dating show, PROOF OF LOVE, by a new startup, Mad Realities Also this year, She produced and directed a collection of films for a substantial new art exhibition JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: KING PLEASURE Simultaneously, Sophia is finishing post-production for the pilot of GOOD JAZZ BACK TO YOU, a docu-series directed and produced by Sophia.
At New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Sophia studied Film & Television Production, double-minoring in Entertainment Business and Art History While a student, she produced a feature documentary GROUNDED, a list of short films including Josh Leong’s THE OTHER SIDE starring Ethan Herisse from Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us which was shot in Ethiopia and is now streaming on Peacock, as well as BREASTMILK, ANYTHING THAT MOVES, ZOO, and several others.
In Summer 2019, Sophia briefly worked in Production & Development at Miramax.
Sophia’s work has brought her from New York to Los Angeles, France, South Africa, London, China, Ethiopia, and more.
Goldfin Films is a petite production company created in 2020 by Sophia which she funnels a small slate of films out of.
She is currently in development for a debut narrative feature for her direction and beginning to work on commercials.
When Sophia is not on calls or emails, you may find her honking ugly notes on her trumpet, traveling the world, or shredding a Peloton.
As Sophia finishes updating her website, check out her website.