About us
Andrew c. Coles
Andrew C. Coles is an activist, manager, producer, consultant, curator + DJ - he currently serves as the Founder & CEO of The Mission Entertainment. Upon graduating from Harvard with an honors degree in African-American studies + Film Theory, he moved to LA and began working at CAA before going to Overbrook Entertainment where he worked under Franklin Leonard (founder of The Black List), first as his assistant then junior executive. From Overbrook he relocated to New York to run development for Scott Rudin Productions, working across film, TV and theatre. In 2013, Andrew created The Mission Entertainment – a production + management company whose purpose and philosophical foundation lies in serving as advocates for storytellers that have been traditionally overlooked, undervalued and underrepresented. With a childhood dream of becoming a civil rights criminal defense attorney, Andrew has married his passions for storytelling + social justice advocacy through working in the entertainment industry – helping to create images that are truly representative of the world we live in. He represents writers, directors, producers and show-runners who tell intentionally intersectional stories that bridge cultures and communities and give a voice to those who have been omitted from traditional narratives.
On the production side, Andrew served as Producer of Universal’s Queen & Slim, Melina Matsoukas’ debut feature, as well as Executive Producer of the BET series Twenties. He is currently developing a documentary feature, It Only Takes One, about the devastating lack of Black and mixed-race donors in the National Bone Marrow Registry. He is currently in production on several podcasts, including a collaboration with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History entitled Reimagining Black History. It is a showcase of authors whose historical scholarship sheds light on the critical contributions of Black Americans throughout America’s history.
In addition to his production work, Andrew is currently incubating the mission radio, a non-profit art collective committed to personal transformation + world change through spirituality + creativity. In 2021, he ran The Mission on Kaua’i, a spiritual retreat and creative campus on the island of Kaua’i that served as a collaborative laboratory for writers, musicians, filmmakers, photographers and executives.
Tiffany Frances
Tiffany Frances is a Taiwanese American writer and director of narrative film and television, commercials, and music videos. She loves to create character-driven, dramatic storytelling with lyrical visuals, and explores stories about women and marginalized voices. She draws from her background as a multi-disciplinary artist in music, photography, theater, and dance.
Tiffany most recently directed an episode of KUNG FU on CW for Season 3. She was a participant in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women program, Warner Bros. Television Directors’ Workshop, and Blackmagic Collective Feature Initiative. She is also a 2x SeriesFest + Shondaland Women Director Mentorship Finalist, 4x NBC Female Forward Finalist, AWD x Starz Finalist, Sundance + WIF Finance Intensive Semi-Finalist, Commercial Directors Diversity Program Finalist, and selected in SHOOT Magazine’s 2018 New Directors Showcase. She was chosen to write and direct an original grounded sci-fi short film ANOTHER DAY for ELLE and Lexus to screen at the ELLE Women in Hollywood event in October 2021, which she is currently adapting into a feature film.
Her film DOT was selected for the Caz Matthews Fund in 2022, and her AFI DWW film HELLO FROM TAIWAN is Oscar qualified and a recipient of The Future of Film is Female grant, premiered at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, won Grand Jury Prize at the Taiwanese American Film Festival, won Best Short at LA Diversity Film Festival, won Best Narrative Short at Reel Sisters Diversity Film Festival, won Best Drama and Best Director at SeriesFest, and screened at MoMA’s FOFIF series in partnership with Chanel.
Tiffany’s commercial clients include Levi’s, Always, Xbox, Shutterstock, Vogue, Citibank, Acura, Glossier, Lancome, Beautycounter, Dia & Co, National Geographic, and Tanya Taylor. She has been featured on ADWEEK, Adforum, Source, shots, Ladygunn, Stereogum, Paper Magazine, Muse by Clio, Blackbook, The Fader, and was a participant of the AICP Mentoring Program.
Nzinga Murráy
Nzinga Murráy is a Creative Executive, film and tv producer and Literary manager who grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. She moved to Los Angeles in 2014 to pursue her second master’s degree in Writing and Producing for Television at Loyola Marymount University. (The first was in Media and Communications Psychology from Touro University). Upon graduation, Nzinga began to garner her “10,000 hours” within the film industry, initially on set and eventually in development positions for production companies. She started working at The Mission Entertainment at the top of 2019, and her initiative, intuition, and creative instincts quickly led her to a role as an executive / team leader within the company.
Nzinga is immensely proud of her race, culture, and quirks, and constantly yearns to entertain the overlooked within her various communities. She loves to creatively produce and write (directing in her free time) about the experience of characters of color who live outside the stigmatized box society constantly puts them in.
She looks forward to continuing her pursuit of the unique stories of the few that will entertain the masses.
In her free time, you can find Nzinga on the rugby pitch playing forward for a highly competitive rugby club in Santa Monica, California. Go Phins!