Minding Shadows is produced by So Fare Films, an American film production company and internship program with its operational headquarters in Rome, Italy.

Jenn Lindsay: PRoducer/Director

Jenn Lindsay is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, social scientist and Ted Talk speaker. She is the CEO and Head of Production at So Fare Films. Since 2005, she worked in post-production as a film editor, story assistant, and independent producer with MTV, the Sundance Channel, Atmosphere Pictures, and Swete Films. Her 2020 documentary short Quarantined Faith won multiple awards at film festivals.

Her documentary feature Simulating Religious Violence had its World Premiere in Fall 2024 at the Religion Today Film Festival in Trento, Italy, and will continue on its premiere screening tour through Spring 2025. She has screened her ethnographic documentaries in festivals, conferences, and classrooms around the world, winning awards from the International Society for Religion and Science and the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

Jenn earned her Ph.D. in the social science of religion at Boston University, a masters degree in religious studies from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University (2011), graduate training in arts management from Yale University School of Drama (2005), and an undergraduate degree in Playwriting from Stanford University (2001). She is a Lecturer in Sociology at John Cabot University in Rome.

For a decade prior to graduate study, Jenn worked in the film and music industries as a composer, film editor, performer and documentary filmmaker. Her ten albums are available on Spotify, iTunes and at JennLindsay.com.

Manuela Barroso: CO-Producer

Manuela is a Brazilian film producer with a strong background in management, event planning, and marketing. She holds a Master’s degree in Management of Image, Cinema, and Audiovisual (MICA) from Università Cattolica in Milan (2025), and a Bachelor's in International Relations and Business from John Cabot University in Rome (2023).

In 2021, she organized BRASA EuroLeads, the largest conference for Brazilian students in Europe. As a Production Manager at So Fare Films, Manuela has participated in renowned film festivals such as Visions du Réel (Switzerland) and Sheffield DocFest (UK). She is currently Co-Producer of the feature-length documentary Minding Shadows and works as a Production Assistant on Ramona Romana, a feature film in development with support from the Sundance Institute.