WHAT WE DO

THREE FRAMES is a non-profit 501©3 that focuses on producing and supporting powerful work by a diverse set of filmmakers to bring attention to pressing political and social issues and motivates deep audience engagement and impact. We work with a range of partners across digital platforms – including feature films, television, short format content for the web, social and mobile – to ensure maximum impact. 

WHO WE ARE

KELLY DUANE DE LA VEGA: Director, Producer, Writer, Impact Campaign Strategist: Kelly’s award-winning documentaries have screened at film festivals worldwide, opened theatrically and broadcast nationally on PBS and Netflix. THE TWO KILLINGS OF SAM COOKE, a Netflix Original, was nominated for a 2020 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. THE RETURN, a Peabody Award Finalist, won the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary, opened POV’s season, was nominated for a national Emmy, screened on Capitol Hill and in prisons across the country. Her work has received the WGA’s Best Documentary Screenplay Award, Gotham Independent Film’s Best Documentary Award and multiple national Emmy nominations. Her film BETTER THIS WORLD won Best Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International, received an IDA Creative Achievement Award and was selected to screen at NY MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight. She has produced short-format work for The New York Times, Mother Jones, IFC and Discovery, among others. She also directed and produced a multimedia PROJECT TURNOUT partnering with the New York Times, Mother Jones and The Nation to explore changing election laws and their impact on people of color.  She has guest lectured at various universities and taught a documentary forms course at UC Berkeley. She has served on multiple documentary juries including the Spirit Awards and is a member of the Academy - Doc Branch. @kddlv.bsky.social / instagram: kelly_ddlv

JESSICA ANTHONY (PRODUCER) is an award-winning documentary producer based in the Bay Area. Most recently, she produced IN WAVES AND WAR (Telluride/Netflix), am Emmy winning feature film directed by Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen of Actual Films, following a group of Navy SEALs as they seek alternative therapies for their treatment-resistant PTSD and TBI’s. She is currently in production on POWER & LIGHT, a feature documentary produced by Actual Films and directed by Kelly Duane de la Vega, and TELL ME EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY, a documentary by legendary filmmaker Jenni Olson. Anthony produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary feature IN THE BONES (Atlanta Film Festival/Grasshopper Films), directed and co-produced by Duane de la Vega. She was a producer on the documentary memoir VIVIEN’S WILD RIDE, a film by Vivien Hillgrove that premiered at SFFILM in 2025 and is available on PBS. Previous producing projects also include SUPREME COURT VS. THE AMERICAN VOTER (NyTimes Op Doc) directed by Duane de la Vega, director Guetty Felin’s narrative feature AYITI MON AMOUR (TIFF), and THE MASK YOU LIVE IN (Sundance/Netflix). Jessica has a background in commercial work, animated content, and VFX. She is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and a member of the Producers’ Guild of America and the DPA.