About

Three people who work inside the industry, talking about the shape of it. Film Filosophy is produced by The Mission Entertainment.

Andrew C. Coles

Andrew C. Coles is an activist, manager, producer, consultant, curator and DJ. He is the founder and CEO of The Mission Entertainment. After graduating from Harvard with an honours degree in African-American Studies and Film Theory, he moved to LA and began working at CAA, then at Overbrook Entertainment under Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List — first as his assistant, then as a junior executive. From Overbrook he relocated to New York to run development for Scott Rudin Productions, working across film, TV and theatre.

In 2013 he created The Mission Entertainment, a production and management company whose purpose and philosophical foundation lies in advocating for storytellers who have been traditionally overlooked, undervalued and underrepresented. With a childhood dream of becoming a civil rights criminal defence attorney, Andrew has married his passions for storytelling and social justice through the entertainment industry, helping create images that are truly representative of the world we live in. He represents writers, directors, producers and showrunners telling intentionally intersectional stories that bridge cultures and communities.

On the production side, Andrew produced Universal’s Queen & Slim, Melina Matsoukas’ debut feature, and executive produced the BET series Twenties. He is developing a documentary feature, It Only Takes One, about the lack of Black and mixed-race donors in the National Bone Marrow Registry, and is in production on several podcasts, including Reimagining Black History with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History.

Alongside the production work, Andrew is incubating The Mission Radio, a non-profit art collective committed to personal transformation and world change through spirituality and creativity. In 2021 he ran The Mission on Kaua’i, a spiritual retreat and creative campus 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 creates character-driven, dramatic storytelling with lyrical visuals, and explores stories about women and marginalized voices, drawing on her background as a multi-disciplinary artist in music, photography, theatre and dance.

She most recently directed an episode of Kung Fu on the CW. She participated in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, the Warner Bros. Television Directors’ Workshop and the Blackmagic Collective Feature Initiative, and is a two-time SeriesFest and Shondaland Women Director Mentorship finalist, four-time NBC Female Forward finalist, AWD x Starz finalist, Sundance and WIF Finance Intensive semi-finalist and Commercial Directors Diversity Program finalist. She was selected for SHOOT Magazine’s 2018 New Directors Showcase, and was chosen to write and direct the original grounded sci-fi short Another Day for ELLE and Lexus, which she is adapting into a feature.

Her film Dot was selected for the Caz Matthews Fund in 2022. Her AFI DWW film Hello From Taiwan is Oscar qualified and a recipient of The Future of Film is Female grant. It premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Taiwanese American Film Festival, Best Short at LA Diversity Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at Reel Sisters Diversity Film Festival, Best Drama and Best Director at SeriesFest, and screened at MoMA’s FOFIF series in partnership with Chanel.

Her commercial clients include Levi’s, Always, Xbox, Shutterstock, Vogue, Citibank, Acura, Glossier, Lancôme, Beautycounter, Dia & Co, National Geographic and Tanya Taylor. She has been featured in ADWEEK, Adforum, Source, shots, Ladygunn, Stereogum, Paper Magazine, Muse by Clio, Blackbook and The Fader, and participated in the AICP Mentoring Program.

Nzinga Murráy

Nzinga Murráy is a creative executive, film and television producer and literary manager who grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside 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.

After graduating she began logging her “10,000 hours” in the film industry, initially on set and eventually in development roles for production companies. She joined The Mission Entertainment at the start of 2019, where her initiative, intuition and creative instincts quickly led to a role as an executive and team leader.

Nzinga is immensely proud of her race, culture and quirks, and yearns to entertain the overlooked within her various communities. She loves to produce and write — and direct in her free time — about characters of colour who live outside the stigmatized box society keeps building for them. 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 club in Santa Monica. Go Phins.