Our Mission
Our Mission
At Medusa’s Gaze Films, our mission is to amplify the voices of women and gender minorities by reframing film through an intentionally diverse gaze. By filling behind-the-camera above-the-line and below-the-line roles with women and gender minorities, Medusa’s Gaze Films empowers creators in significant creative roles to help them showcase stories through their own lens.
Meet our team
Meet our team
Driving inclusive filmmaking from North Carolina to the world.
Mary Craven Adams
Founder
Mary Craven Adams is a Screenwriter, Producer, and Lawyer. She holds a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law and an MFA from UNCSA. She has volunteered with film-centered nonprofits for over a decade, including being chair of the RiverRun International Film Festival, on the executive committee of the Piedmont Triad Film Commission, and a board member of Project 411 Space. She volunteers on the Sports and Entertainment Law Council of the North Carolina Bar Association.
She has written and co-written multiple produced short films, including Women of Acadia Street and Bridge of Dreams, and is the executive producer of Spitting Image. Most of her feature screenwriting is in the coming-of-age and drama genres. Her background as a litigator has proven fertile ground for conflict-driven stories that explore the goals that characters are willing to sacrifice anything in order to obtain.
Autumn Karen
Founder
Autumn Karen is a filmmaker, journalist, ghostwriter, and educator who uses writing to elevate traditionally unheard stories. She's English faculty at High Point University, a longtime contributor to local independent paper Triad City Beat, and holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UNCSA. As an educator, she has developed and regularly teaches courses on ghostwriting, constructing novellas, narrative medicine, professional writing, and film analysis. Her award winning work as a journalist, author, and screenwriter centers on themes such as gendered life experiences, grief, and complex societal relationships.
Among her credited co-authored books in her last decade as a ghostwriter are Mississippi Still Burning: From Hoods to Suits, the story of Black preacher James Hart Stern, who took over the KKK from prison, and Amy: Book One, an empowerment erotica novel published through the University of Pleasure. Her award-winning short screenplay, Infinity Care, is based on her own experience losing a daughter to epilepsy.