Meet Carolina Groppa! Carolina is a Producer and Podcaster. She’s worked as a freelance producer for over a decade across all platforms and in both narrative and documentary mediums. Carolina earned her first, of what I’m sure will be more to come, Emmy nomination in Producing for the documentary Autism in Love. Most recently, a narrative film she produced this past year – Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul, had its premiere at Sundance. Along with all her work in film & TV, Carolina also self-produces (I’d expect nothing less of a producer!) a wonderful and informative podcast called - Angle On Producers (AOP). On AOP she has in-depth conversations with many of today’s most progressive and innovative film & TV producers. AOP is how I discovered Carolina, and in our chat, we get into how she started AOP out of curiosity and with an aim to highlight the unvarnished truth of what it takes to work in film & TV as a producer and about all the different types of producers it takes to bring projects to fruition. We also talk about her journey, going from a freelance producer in physical production to pivoting and becoming a production executive at Issa Rea’s production company – ColorCreative as the Head of Physical Production. And the thing I find most wonderful about Carolina is that she is a poster child for following your passion and curiosity, as the opportunity to become a part of the ColorCreative team stemmed directly from her creating her podcast in the first place.

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Carolina’s Bio -

Carolina is an Emmy nominated producer based in Los Angeles. She produced the 2017 Emmy nominated feature documentary AUTISM IN LOVE, which explores how adults with autism find and navigate romantic relationships.  It world premiered to rave reviews at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on PBS' Independent Lens series.

AUTISM IN LOVE was the recipient of the Fifth Annual Peek Award for Disability in Film by the Utah Film Center, which pays tribute to artists who are positively impacting society’s perception of people with disabilities. 

She was a co-producer on MISS VIRGINIA, starring Uzo Aduba. She was the Production Supervisor on the Netflix original films GIRLFRIEND'S DAY starring Bob Odenkirk and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY starring Ben Schwartz and Nöel Wells.

In 2016, she had the pleasure of co-producing THE FEMALE BRAIN, Whitney Cummings' directing debut feature film.

Passionate about supporting female filmmakers, she produced CURATED, a short for Refinery 29's Shatterbox Anthology Series, directed by Gillian Jacobs which premiered at TIFF in 2018.

She was the physical producer (UPM) on, SYLVIE'S LOVE, available for streaming on Amazon.  Written and directed by Eugene Ashe, this ode to classic melodramas stars Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha. An official selection of Sundance 2020, the film has received raved reviews by The New York Times and The LA Times.

She produced the feature documentary HYSTERICAL for FX and directed by Andrea Nevins (TINY SHOULDERS:RETHINKING BARBIE).  World premieres at SXSW 2021 and available on Hulu/FX in the Spring. The film is an honest and hilarious backstage pass into the lives of some of stand-up comedy’s most boundary-breaking women, exploring the hard-fought journey to become the voices of their generation and their gender.

Featuring Iliza Shlesinger, Margaret Cho, Fortune Feimster, Rachel Feinstein, Marina Franklin, Nikki Glaser, Judy Gold, Kathy Griffin, Lisa Lampanelli, Jessica Kirson, Sherri Shepherd, Bonnie McFarlane, Carmen Lynch, Wendy Liebman and Kelly Bachman.