specializes in producing and executive producing documentary features and series. Motto secures financing, builds distribution strategies, and creatively develops films with an eye toward maximizing the position of each project in the domestic and international markets.
MOTTO PICTURES
5
Academy Award Nominations
12
Emmy Awards
4
Peabody Awards
OUR TEAM
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Julie Goldman
Producer
Julie Goldman is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer and executive producer of documentary and fiction films and series. Julie is the first documentary producer to receive the Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producer’s Award and the Cinereach Producer’s Award. She recently produced Selena y Los Dinos, which premiered at Sundance and won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award, in addition to Audience Awards at SXSW and Miami Film Festivals. In 2023, three of her films premiered at Sundance: the Emmy-winning Victim/Suspect, the Grand Jury Prize-winning and Oscar-Nominated The Eternal Memory, and Roger Ross Williams’ acclaimed fiction feature Cassandro, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and featuring Bad Bunny. Julie produced Nanfu Wang’s Peabody Award-winning and Oscar-shortlisted In the Same Breath; Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground; the Peabody and Emmy Awards winner A Thousand Cuts; The Return of Tanya Tucker Featuring Brandi Carlile, and the Oscar-nominated films Life, Animated and Abacus. She executive-produced the Oscar-nominated The Mole Agent and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Weiner. Julie’s current slate includes the second season of the hit Netflix series A Man on the Inside starring Ted Danson, and new films from directors including Maite Alberdi, Roger Ross Williams, Kathlyn Horan, and Marcus Lindeen.
Christopher Clements
Producer
Christopher Clements is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer and partner at Motto Pictures. He recently produced Selena y Los Dinos, which premiered at Sundance this year and won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling, and received an Audience Award at SXSW. He produced the Emmy-winning Victim/Suspect, and executive produced Cassandro starring Gael Garcia Bernal and featuring Bad Bunny, and the Grand Jury Prize-winning The Eternal Memory, all of which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Christopher produced American Pain; Unfinished Business; The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile, which won the SXSW Film Festival Audience Award; the Peabody and DuPont Award-winning In the Same Breath; Todd Haynes’ Oscar-shortlisted The Velvet Underground; and the Peabody and Emmy-winning A Thousand Cuts, which followed journalists in the Philippines led by Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa. He executive-produced the Academy Award-nominated The Mole Agent and Abacus: Small Enough to Jail; the Oscar-shortlisted Weiner; the Peabody Award-winning Inventing Tomorrow and Southwest of Salem, which directly contributed to the legal appeal that exonerated four falsely accused and long imprisoned women in Texas. Christopher’s current slate includes the second season of Mike Schur’ hit Netflix series A Man on the Inside starring Ted Danson, which is based on The Mole Agent, and new films from directors including Maite Alberdi, Roger Ross Williams, Kathlyn Horan and Marcus Lindeen.
J. Daniel Torres
Producer
Through his work at Motto Pictures, Emmy Award-winning producer J. Daniel Torres has almost a decade of production experience on films across multiple streaming platforms. Torres produced Isabel Castro’s ‘Selena Y Los Dinos’ (2025 Sundance Film Festival), and co-produced Patricia Gilespie’s poignant, award-winning ‘The Fire That Took Her’ (Paramount/2022 Woodstock Film Festival). Other critically acclaimed co-producer credits include Roger Ross Wiliams’ and Brooklyn Sudano’s ‘Love to Love You, Donna Summer’ (HBO, 2023 Berlinale Film Festival), Nancy Schwartzman’s Emmy-nominated ‘Victim/Suspect’ (Netflix/2023 Sundance Film Festival), and Kathlyn Horan’s ‘The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile’ (Sony Pictures Classics/2022 SXSW Audience Award). He was an associate producer on Ivy Meeropol’s ever-relevant Emmy-nominated ‘Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (HBO/2019 New York Film Festival) and Todd Haynes’ Oscar-shortlisted The Velvet Underground (Apple TV/2021 Cannes Film Festival). Currently, Torres is channeling his creative energy into developing and producing a slate of exciting new films.
Samantha Bloom
Producer
Samantha started at Motto Pictures as a creative assistant before becoming an associate producer, co-producer, and now producer at the company. Samantha co-produced Alison Klayman’s Unfinished Business (Tribeca 2022) and Netflix’s Take Your Pills: Xanax. Samantha was a Production Coordinator on Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nominated The Mole Agent; a Production Associate on Nanfu Wang’s Peabody-Winning In The Same Breath, and Laura Nix’s Peabody-Winning Inventing Tomorrow; a Production Assistant on Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground (2020 Cannes Film Festival), Andre Hoermann’s Emmy-nominated Ringside, and Nanfu Wang’s Oscar-shortlisted One Child Nation. She is currently producing projects with directors including Pernille Rose Grønkjær and Julia Schwalb.
Kendall Marianacci
Co-Producer
Kendall Marianacci is an Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker based in New York City. Most recently, she Co-Produced Selena y Los Dinos for Netflix. She previously worked with Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams as Archival Associate Producer on Love to Love You, Donna Summer (HBO), and contributed to several acclaimed feature documentaries including Unfinished Business (Amazon), Judy Blume Forever (Amazon), and Victim/Suspect (Netflix), which premiered at Sundance in 2023. In 2024, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Research: Documentary for her researcher role on Victim/Suspect. In addition to her work with Motto Pictures, she is currently developing her own documentary projects. Her storytelling is rooted in authenticity, with a focus on character-driven narratives that explore how people connect to each other and the world.
Micah Frenkiel
Creative Assistant
Before joining Motto, Micah spent two years as an assistant at CAA, where she worked with directors, producers, writers, and production companies across the agency’s Unscripted and TV Lit/Comedy divisions. Prior to this, she read pilots for Coverfly, and was a Director’s Assistant at Netflix, drafting screenplays and lending creative support. She had previously worked at Stand Up NY, an iconic comedy club on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and before that, as an editorial assistant at The Last Magazine, a biannual art and culture publication. As a college student, she was a development intern at Color Force, Pretty Matches Productions and Metalwork Pictures.