At the core of Hola Mamá is purpose. Our team is united by a singular mission: to bring a necessary story to light with care, clarity, and conviction. Everyone involved—cast and crew—sees this as a responsibility: to shepherd a necessary story into the world, guided by heart and an unflinching commitment to the truth.

I have spent my career helping tell other people’s stories. Never did I imagine that mine was one that needed to be told. But I’ve also come to learn that it’s not only my story—it’s a collective story shared by tens of thousands. The atrocity of illegal and coercive adoptions, fueled by profit and under the guise of humanitarian aid, continues to happen around the world.
As a society, when we seek babies for parents instead of seeking parents for babies in need, we create a “business” rather than prioritizing the well-being of children.
I began this journey as a grateful, but largely ignorant adoptee. Like many others, I believed the narrative I’d been told. But the deeper I dug, the more I uncovered a far more disturbing truth. This wasn’t just about adoption. It was about control, coercion, and profit. It was about exploiting women—especially poor, young, single women—who were deemed “unfit” by a system that knew they lacked the power, resources, and voices to fight back. It was never truly about saving babies. It was about selling them. That realization changed everything for me.
This series is more than personal. It’s a reckoning. Hola Mamá exposes the hard truths about power, silence, and systemic injustice, but it also creates a space for audiences to sit with the complexity, ask their own questions, and decide where they stand. Because once you know the truth, you can’t know it. And you have to choose what to do with it.
Gretchen Sisson, Author of Relinquished


Jonathan is a PGA member, Emmy-nominated producer, and GLAAD-nominated director, most recently recognized for MSNBC Films' Serving In Secret, featuring Nancy Pelosi, Pete Buttigieg, and Rachel Maddow. He produced the SXSW 2025-premiering The Dutchman (Kate Mara, Andre Holland, Zazie Beetz), The Knife (Tribeca 2024, Nnamdi Asomugha, Melissa Leo), Sylvie's Love (Amazon Studios, Sundance Audience Award, LaKeith Stanfield), and The One and Only Dick Gregory (Showtime, Tribeca, Emmy-nominated). Earlier in his career, he served as Marketing Manager at Sony Pictures, working on 10 #1 box office films including Adaption, Big Fish, and Closer.

Matt is the Managing Director of Three Mighty Lions, LLC bringing to market stories on topics the world needs to hear. Matt is a 2-time Emmy nominated producer for Amazon Studios' jazz-era feature Sylvie's Love, which premiered at Sundance and Showtime's The One and Only Dick Gregory which premiered at Tribeca. Most recently Matt is the Executive Producer for The Dutchman which premiered at SWSW this year. Matt's latest documentary endeavor, Where The Light Enters Yo, co-directed by Academy Award-winner and Emmy Award winning editor Hemal Trivedi, is currently out on the festival circuit.

Adrian Reamey makes her directorial debut with Hola Mamá, bringing a rare dual perspective as both subject and storyteller. Prior to stepping behind the camera, Adrian spent the last 15 years developing national campaigns across broadcast, digital and social platforms for brands such as Crepe Erase™, Sono Bello, and Michael Strahan™. As a co-founder of 2 Glasses In, a female-owned development company dedicated to producing female-centric and diversified stories, she now turns her focus to documentaries—with a commitment to real stories with depth, urgency, and purpose.

Aimee is a Producer of Hola Mamá and co-founder of 2 Glasses In, with nearly 25 years in television and commercial production. She has written, produced, and directed multi-platform short and long-form commercials and campaigns for brands including T-Mobile™, JLO Beauty®, and Michael Strahan™, with work airing across CBS, ABC, NBC, MTV, Lifetime, and more. Aimee began her career in syndicated and daytime television (The Rachael Ray Show, Total Request Live) and served as Creative Services Manager at Condé Nast, producing advertorial projects for Glamour and Details magazines in partnership with Miramax, The Golden Globes, and the Sundance Film Festival.

As Producer of Hola Mamá and co-founder of 2 Glasses In, Jill Teeples brings 27 years of masterful creative direction, visual strategy, and performance-based branding, design, and campaign development to the unscripted space. An innovative, visual-storyteller, Jill has led countless advertising, marketing, and sales initiatives for prestige, luxury, and mass global brands across categories including art, hospitality, spirits, interior design, health, wellness, beauty, lifestyle, and e-commerce. Her emotionally resonant, visually driven campaigns inform her approach to documentary filmmaking—where she brings a sharp creative eye and a strong commitment to purpose-driven storytelling.

Before Story Producing for Hola Mamá, Jade was lead researcher and Associate Producer on the GLAAD Award nominated MSNBC film Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, co-produced with TIME Studios. She is developing the hit anthropology book, Sex at Dawn into a documentary feature film, which she will co-direct; and producing the feature documentary on Jonathan Larson and the making of his groundbreaking Broadway musical RENT. Jade is currently attending Yale University to study History and Film.

As the cinematographer of Hola Mamá, Jesse brings a decade of visual storytelling experience across documentary, commercial, and broadcast work. As Owner and Director of Photography at Whitford Foundry, he has filmed campaigns for national brands including JLo Beauty, KFC, and Geico. While known for his compelling short-form documentary pieces, Hola Mamá marks his long-form debut. Jesse’s work combines technical precision with an intuitive, human-centered approach to capturing emotionally resonant stories.

A former Director of Creative Affairs at Paramount Pictures, Joel is co-founder of Hyphenate Films through which he produced, wrote, and edited a variety of film and television content. He co-produced The Adjustment Bureau, then produced and edited The Banker (NAACP Image Award for Best Independent Feature), Birth of the Dragon (TIFF premiere), and Elevation. With Mora Stephens, he co-wrote and produced Zipper (Sundance selection) and Conventioneers (Independent Spirit Award—John Cassavetes Award). Additional credits include Strictly Sexual, NBC's Allegiance, and content for artists like Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, P!NK.
His scores include Showtime’s Emmy-nominated The One and Only Dick Gregory, praised by The Wall Street Journal for its originality, as well as BET+’s Average Joe and The Knife, a Tribeca Film Festival winner. He most recently produced for Will Smith on Based on a True Story, the actor’s first album in 20 years.

Kyle Townsend is a three-time Grammy Award–nominated producer and composer whose work has also earned three Academy Award nominations. His work spans film, television, and chart-topping records and albums, including collaborations with Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Hudson, Ariana Grande, and many others. A longtime creative partner of Diane Warren, Townsend has helped craft records for superstar artists and projects for the Obama and Biden administrations, Oprah Winfrey, the ACLU, and ABC’s The View.
His scores include Showtime’s Emmy-nominated The One and Only Dick Gregory, praised by The Wall Street Journal for its originality, as well as BET+’s Average Joe and The Knife, a Tribeca Film Festival winner. He most recently produced for Will Smith on Based on a True Story, the actor’s first album in 20 years.

Jesse Lapin is an archival producer with a decade of experience in documentary film and television. His professional credits include ‘The Turning Point: Serving in Secret,’ ‘Rolling Along: Bill Bradley,’ and numerous VICE Media productions.

Leah produced the MSNBC Films documentary Serving in Secret, worked under Jonathan T. Baker on the feature film The Knife, and the upcoming The Dutchman. Her previous credits include Amazon’s critically acclaimed film Sylvie’s Love and Associate Producer on Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime. As Director of Development, Leah oversees the creative development of all projects under the JB Productions banner, spanning feature films, narrative television, and unscripted content.

Derek Kicker is an Emmy Award–nominated editor (Home) with 13 years of experience in unscripted and narrative television. His most notable credits include Serving in Secret: Love, Country and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which earned a GLAAD Award nomination, and The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to critical acclaim.

A film and television editor with over 15 years of experience across Latin America and Europe, Andrés most recently served as lead editor on the documentary
Antarctica: Searching for Adaptation which premiered at Sheffield DocFest 2023 and was selected for Sunny Side of the Doc 2023 and Santiago Wild Festival 2024. He also edited the 2021 documentary Breaking the Brick - world premiering at Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2022. Some of his earlier work includes the award-winning series Secreto Ancestral (2020), broadcast across Latin America, and the feature documentary Unfinished Plan: The Path of Alain Johannes(2015), winner in the Festival In-Edit Chile (2016).