Welcome to The Tenant Short Film page! 

Crystal was born and raised in southeast Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Southern California and is currently a Production Coordinator at a major entertainment agency. She hopes to become a creative film producer to develop stories that pertain to Latinx culture, social injustices, and fantasy/mythology. This is her first independent project, and she hopes to continue to build on her expertise and interest. She’s inspired by the work of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jordan Peele and Guillermo del Toro. Her aspirations include helping to produce an American-Spanish language film that sheds light onto her upbringing in California as a Mexican-American. 

Desiree Ewing is a Fordham University graduate with a deep passion for storytelling, the queer hispanic experience, and the intersection of media and social justice activism. She has developed her writing skills throughout college and at her various industry jobs, including the pieces that she has written and produced for SYFY Wire at NBC Universal and her work in television development at Goodbye Pictures. She dreams of helping to create groundbreaking content that challenges America's perception of identity and pushes our limited views of the self through television during the new golden age. This will be her first independent project as a co-producer!

​​Jaime started her career as a primary school teacher. Her love of writing grew during her time at Cambridge University, where she studied a B.Ed in Drama. She achieved first class grades in directing and writing and hasn’t looked back since. After taking some time out with family life, she started writing theater plays again but soon realized, because of her love of all things film, that she was destined to become a screenwriter. Jaime has formally been writing screenplays for two years, has won a number of challenges within her local writing group, has extended a 7 page winning biopic based on the life of Bonnie and Clyde into a 23 page short which was then submitted to the Austin Film Festival as her winner’s prize. She is currently working on an urban sci-fi mini-series. The Tenant will be Jaime's first short screenplay, a psychological thriller, to go into production.