TWO TIGERS’ Co-Founders

Jillian Schultz

Jillian Schultz is a producer and cultural organizer with nearly twenty years of experience working at the intersection of art and activism. She has expertise in lens-based media, artist development, exhibition curation/production, and public programming. She has worked on a range of projects from exhibitions to documentaries to educational travel and beyond. Her work in documentary film began with co-producing the New York Times Op-Doc, My American Surrogate (Leslie Tai, 2019). She also produced Tai’s feature documentary debut, How to Have an American Baby, which premiered at True/False and was broadcast on POV in 2023. Her career began at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she has curated exhibitions and produced public programs around the world. She served as the Managing Director of Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles and has engaged her local community as a governing board member of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council since 2016. She speaks Mandarin and has a BA from Tulane University and a MA from Columbia University. 

Leah Thompson

Leah Thompson is a documentary filmmaker and producer based in Los Angeles. Her short documentary, How to Start Your Own Utopia, follows Ou Ning, a well-known Chinese artist, and his ill-fated attempt to use art to revive a dying village in remote Anhui province. The film has been included in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, as well as SFMOMA. Thompson recently produced COAL + ICE, an immersive 50,000-square-foot multimedia documentary exhibition co-curated by Susan Meiselas and Jeroen de Vries, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Thompson’s photography, writing, and short films have been featured in The New York Times, ChinaFile, NPR, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic, among others. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in History from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University, respectively, with a focus on American cultural and intellectual history.