Red Beret Productions is a Brooklyn-based production company run by film director Susan O’Brien, who’s sole mission is to provide emerging artists with a platform that elevates diverse voices. O’Brien is able to achieve this by collaborating with creative producer and friend Dasha Kova aiming to disprove the myth that artists need to be given permission to create the projects that they want to do, the team is driven by their motto “make things happen.”

After meeting in 2018 through a mutual colleague in New York City, who recommended they work together on one of O’Brien’s directorial projects, the duo immediately became close friends building a connection and immense respect for each other’s work and creative lenses.

They would later discover that they were compatible creatively as they both strived to work on projects that offered meaning and solutions to problems, like the lack of diversity in film and media. In turn, their workspace has become a great example of what “walking the walk” means in this regard.