The Last Partera

Director & Producer

Victoria Bouloubasis has directed and produced several award-winning films. In 2023, Rising Up in the Heartland (Univision) won 1st place in the Documentary Journalism category at the Picture of the Year International (POYi) contest, a 1st place ONA award for pandemic coverage, and was nominated for a 2023 News & Doc Emmy. Heroes of the Pandemic, a Univision/Enlace Latino NC film she co-directed and co-produced, won a 2021 Murrow Award and two 2021 Webby Awards for Longform News Documentary and People’s Voice. Niñas, a film she co-directed and produced with Agencia Ocote in Guatemala, was part of a comprehensive transmedia project “No Fue El Fuego” that won the 2022 Premio Gabo. Victoria is currently co-directing The Last Partera, a documentary about a 99-year-old midwife in rural Costa Rica. She co-produced the PBS docuseries Somewhere South (2020). Victoria Bouloubasis (producer) is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Durham, N.C. Her work aims to dispel myths about the Global South against the backdrop of complex social, political and personal histories. She often tells stories at the intersection of food, labor, and im/migration. Victoria has reported from the US South and rural Midwest, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Greece. She was selected as a 2024 fellow of the New Orleans Film Society Southern Producers Lab, a 2024 cohort member of DocShop South, and a 2018 selected filmmaker at UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program.

Director & Cinematographer Ned Phillips is an Emmy-winning filmmaker based in Durham, North Carolina. He graduated with honors from Goucher College and went on to earn a certificate in Documentary Arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Since then, he has shot and edited multiple films, including the documentary feature Truth Underground (2016), which played at Cucalorus, RiverRun International Film Festival, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, and others. He currently works as an editor and cinematographer with Markay Media, which produced the Emmy-award winning PBS documentary series “A Chef’s Life” and HBO limited series “Burden of Proof”. Ned's directorial debut, "The Maestro" (2018), premiered at the RiverRun International Film Festival. The Last Partera is his first feature.

Producer & Writer Pilar Timpane is an award-winning filmmaker and producer based in Durham, NC. She was a ITVS/NEH Humanities Documentary Development Fellow and a Logan Nonfiction Program Fellow. She co-directed and produced SANTUARIO (2019, PBS/ReelSouth & AlJazeera Witness), the winner of the Best Documentary Short Jury Prize at New Orleans Film Festival 2018 and the IF/Then Shorts American South Pitch. She is a Women in Film and New Orleans Film Society Southern Producers Lab alumna.