for all screenings
Co-Directors
Jackie Jesko, Alyse Walsh
Executive Producer
Nick Capote
Producers
Melissa Leardi, Alex Waterfield, Kelly Rohrbach Walton
Editor
Daniela I. Quiroz
Co-Editor
Daniela I. Quiroz
Assistant Editor
Michael Cutrone
Cinematographer
Cassandra Giraldo
Additional Cinematography
Christopher Gill, Carissa Henderson
Sound
Benny Mouthon
Composers
T. Griffin, Dash Hammerstein
Contact
Lauren Schwartz lauren@cineticmedia.com
Teen birth rates in America’s Heartland are among the highest in the nation. Filmed over two years with intimate verite access, baby/girls follows Olivia, Grace and Ariana as they give birth and attempt to break the cycle of poverty, addiction, and abuse that has marked their own childhoods. With rare proximity and emotional clarity, baby/girls offers a powerful portrait of young women coming of age in a place where choice, faith, and generational traumas collide.
Jackie Jesko is a director and journalist who seeks out stories about complicated people, places, and societies. Her most recent credits include BARBARA WALTERS: TELL ME EVERYTHING (Hulu, Tribeca premiere 2025) and SAVIOR COMPLEX (HBO, 2023). Jackie’s work has been honored with several awards, including a DuPont, an Emmy, and the James Foley Medal for Courage in Journalism. She is also a co-founder of Latchkey Films.
Alyse Walsh is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work spans multiple continents and genres. She was recently a director and executive producer on the Emmy Award–winning second season of HOME, an Apple Original Documentary series produced with A24. She directed several episodes of the Emmy-nominated Netflix science series CONNECTED. Alyse was the supervising producer of DIAGNOSIS, also for Netflix, as well as DEFYING GRAVITY, a PGA Award–winning YouTube Original series about women’s gymnastics.