ABOUT LOTERIA

LOTERIA FILMS, winner of the WGA Best Documentary Screenplay Award and the Gotham Award for Best Documentary is a creatively driven San Francisco Bay Area based multimedia company specializing in film, television and short format content for the web, social, mobile and other digital platforms.

FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES LOTERIA’S Directing/Producing team brings strong cinematic and journalistic backgrounds and a history of theatrically released and nationally broadcast films. Our award winning documentaries have been shown in major film festivals around the world.

COMMERICAL/NON-PROFIT From project concept to completion, LOTERIA is known for our strong, collaborative relationships with our clients and our ability to tell compelling stories that make a big impact. Our commercial and non-profit clients include IFC, Discovery Channel, PlanetGreen, Mother Jones Magazine, Chronicle Books, Random House, UNCF (United Negro College Fund), Nikon/Novus Select and others. Projects include innovative short and long format content for television and the web.

CONSULTING LOTERIA’S team consults with filmmakers and production companies on grant writing, story development, production and editing. Most recently LOTERIA managed the creative post process (story development and edit) for the feature documentary The Wall by Transglobal, the production company behind the hit Discovery series Fly Wild Alaska.

FICTION DEVELOPMENT LOTERIA projects have been and are being developed for fiction film and television.

Kelly Duane de la Vega, Director / Producer

Kelly Duane de la Vega is an award-winning feature documentary filmmaker with an extensive background developing short format content for the web and TV. She was a recent Sundance Documentary Fellow, HBO/Film Independent Documentary Fellow, and a recipient of a 2012 Writers Guild of America award for Best Documentary Screenplay.

Duane de la Vega’s documentary BETTER THIS WORLD (POV 2011) premiered at SXSW and has been awarded several Best Feature Documentary prizes, including by The Gotham Independent Film Awards, and the San Francisco International and Sarasota Film Festivals.  Granted a recent Creative Recognition Award by the International Documentary Association, the film was also nominated for Best Documentary by the IDA and London’s prestigious Grierson Awards and for Best Documentary Screenplay by The Writer’s Guild of America.

Her award-winning, Emmy-nominated feature documentary MONUMENTAL: DAVID BROWER’S FIGHT FOR WILD AMERICA opened theatrically nationwide and was broadcast on PBS and the Documentary Channel. Called “stylish and substantial” by Variety and “inspiring” by The New York Times, MONUMENTAL was selected by the New York Film Society to screen at Lincoln Center and is used as part of the educational curriculum in universities throughout the United States. Her documentary SEE HOW THEY RUN about Willie Brown’s mayoral campaign, premiered at SXSW and aired on PBS.

As Senior Director of Content/Executive Producer for TurnHere, a successful Internet video production company, Duane de la Vega spent five years developing, pitching, producing and overseeing delivery of short format web and television content for IFC, Discovery Channel, Planet Green and others. She developed and maintained a large network of freelance international filmmakers & video journalists and produced two short format television series for IFC focusing on emerging and innovative artists around the world.

Katie Galloway, Director / Producer

Katie Galloway, winner of a 2012 Writer’s Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay, has directed and produced numerous award winning films and series for PBS FRONTLINE and POV, among others.

Her critically acclaimed film BETTER THIS WORLD (POV, 2011) called “riveting” by Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and “mind-boggling” by David Edelstein of New York Magazine, has won several top doc awards, including a Gotham Independent Film Best Documentary Award, an International Documentary Association Creative Achievement Award and Best Documentary at the San Francisco International and Sarasota Film Festivals. Also nominated for the prestigious Grierson Award in the UK and for Best Documentary by the International Documentary Association, Better This World is currently being developed as a narrative film.

Galloway’s feature documentary PRISON TOWN, USA (POV, 2007) called “documentary making at its best” by The San Francisco Chronicle and “intriguing” by The New York Times, was developed as a fiction series by IFC, for which she co-wrote the first three episodes.

A recent Sundance Documentary Fellow and HBO/Film Independent documentary fellow, Galloway taught documentary production at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York and now teaches Media Studies at U.C. Berkeley, where she was also recently the filmmaker in residence at the Journalism School’s Investigative Reporting Program.

Galloway produced and reported an award-winning trio of films on the American criminal justice system for PBS FRONTLINE with director Ofra Bikel: SNITCH, REQUIEM FOR FRANK LEE SMITH, and THE CASE FOR INNOCENCE, for which Galloway received a national EMMY NOMINATION.