Tema L. Staig

Movies

Illipino
Executive Producer
A troubled Filipino teen finds her strength through street dance.
Cherry Lemonade
Producer
On a hot summer day in a lower-income neighborhood, a black girl learns to take the lead on her own terms.
Cherry Lemonade
Executive Producer
On a hot summer day in a lower-income neighborhood, a black girl learns to take the lead on her own terms.
Certified
Production Design
A postman's first day takes a terrifying turn when a precocious young girl tells him of her family's horrible tragedy.
Found
Art Direction
Sixteen years after the Drakes' young daughter was kidnapped by her nanny, a woman appears claiming to be the long-lost child.
They Are Among Us
Production Design
The film concerns a sleepy town that is populated mostly by aliens who have suspicious been pretending to be humans for a lengthy period of time in order to eventually strip the planet of resources they need to live.
Faultline
Art Direction
In the beautiful underwater reefs off the coast of Florida's pastoral Pajaro Island, a fissure rips open in the ocean floor. When graduate student Greg Chambers encounters the seismic readings, he rushes to tell his professor, Anthony McAlister. Greg suspects that a massive earthquake is about to give the small island a rude awakening. To make matters worse, the epicenter is right under Pajaro Island's new resort, where Anthony's estranged wife Lynn is working. As they drive to warn Lynn, the quake tears through the small town, damaging downtown and leveling several homes. The bridge connecting the island to the mainland is wiped out. Lynn and three others are trapped underground in the resort's utility tunnels. When Greg is killed during a rescue attempt, Lynn is forced to rally the survivors to try and save themselves. With aftershocks tearing through the site, the tunnels growing more and more unstable...
Kissing Jessica Stein
Art Direction
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething art gallerist.