Dominique Roberts (Nikki)
Producer · Writer · Actress
Dominique is a graduate of Harvard Law School, New York University Tisch School of the Arts and holds a masters in history from Oxford University where she completed her dissertation on the role of women in the creation of the film industry. Dominique is a lawyer admitted to practice in England, Wales and California, and previously worked in the Corporate and International Arbitration teams of Sidley Austin’s London and Hong Kong offices. She recently spent time at the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations in NYC as a Harvard East Asian Legal Studies visiting scholar.
Dominique is a founder of Code Your Chances, a non-profit with a mission to inspire a new generation of diverse leaders in computer science and to address the gender imbalance in STEM fields. Her film work has been featured in Women’s Way magazine and screened at festivals around the world.
Gabrielle Roberts (Ella)
Producer · Writer · Director
Gabrielle is one of very few women working in virtual production and is using her advanced technical and creative skillset to revolutionize the film industry. She has worked with Oscar-winning filmmakers, pioneered the virtual human industry at the LA startup Brud (where she helped create the world’s most famous virtual human, Miquela), was main virtual production operator and technical artist for Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar the Last Airbender, recently worked as a Virtual Production Lead at The Third Floor, and has collaborated with and consulted virtual production studios across China.
She has presented her published machine learning research at the MIT IEEE conference, been a keynote speaker at tech festivals
worldwide, and recently gave a TED talk on virtual production in Shanghai. She received the Diana Award (in honor of Princess Diana) for founding the international nonprofit Code Your Chances, the most prestigious award a person under 25 can receive for humanitarian work. Her upcoming short film is funded by M& Ms/Mars Wrigley and the Geena Davis Institute for Media in Gender.