Cousins is a creative first production studio.
We specialize in alternative marketing solutions for brand partners. Creating streamlined production strategies that connect purpose with execution, empowering brands to tell more authentic, impactful stories. Our collaborative approach supports independent filmmakers and brings clients closer to the creative process, ensuring content that truly resonates. Our work ranges from award winning branded campaigns to unscripted television series, fine art films, narrative features and shorts, visual albums and even cookbooks.
- Partner Bios -
Jessica Chermayeff Jessica is a director and producer of television series and documentary films and a founding partner of the production company Cousins. Most recently she and Ana Veselic co-directed, Hulu’s six part docu series, Planet Sex hosted by Cara Delevinge as she travels the world to explore sexuality, human connection, and gender expression. Jessica and Ana also created, produced and directed The Come Up, on Hulu following 6 young New Yorkers as they live, love, and succeed in the city. She is also the executive producer of Lifetime’s Her America: 50 Women, 50 States, an award winning digital road trip to hear from women the year after Trump’s election. She produced the award winning short, Senior Prom, for ITVS and directed the documentary film Towards the North, following Honduran refugees to the U.S. Border, as part of Humanity on the Move a campaign she produced about the global refugee crisis which received an IDA nomination and aired on PBS. She also produced the SXSW-winning, Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted documentary Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace. Her other producing and directing work includes nonfiction television for CNN, New York Times and PBS covering topics including the Mongol Nation bikers, Child literacy in Vietnam and sex trafficking in America. She was the field producer for the PBS mini-series Half the Sky: Turning Opportunity into Oppression for Women Worldwide, which followed the reporting of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. She is a board member of the New York Studio School and a resident of Brooklyn.
Ana Veselic Ana Veselic is an award winning director and editor. She recently edited the 3-part HBO original, Love Has Won directed by Hannah Olson. With Jessica Chermayeff she directed the Hulu original series Planet Sex with Cara Delevigne, as well as Freeform’s docu series The Come Up. She is the director of the award winning Lifetime documentary campaign Her America: 50 women, 50 States, as well as the producer and editor of the SXSW winning, Oscar-shortlisted documentary, Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace. Her commercial clients include, Crest, RuPauls Drag Race, Dove, Dish, Fiat, Virgin, VICE, Vh1, A+E, PBS, the New York Times, GEICO, Timberland, and others. Ana is originally from Zagreb, Croatia.
Anne Alexander Anne is an award-winning producer and founding partner of Cousins. Her recent work includes serving as an Executive Producer on The Come Up, an eight-part docu-series for Hulu that follows the lives of six ambitious young New Yorkers navigating identity, ambition, and art. She also produced Nosferasta, winner of the Tiger Ammodo Shorts Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives, commissioned by DIS for the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement in Geneva. Anne’s recent credits also include Kehinde Wiley: Prelude, a six-screen immersive installation exhibited at the National Gallery in London. As a commercial producer she has overseen projects for the WNBA, New York Times, Nike, North Face, Jeep, Ford, ESPN, Procter & Gamble and many others.