Proud Marys: The Birth of A New Musical
Los Angeles, California | Film Feature
Documentary, Musical
"Proud Marys" follows creators Jennifer Paz and Anthony Fedorov as they bring their irreverent, pop-infused Filipino-American comedy musical from a viral TV pilot to the NYC stage. This short captures the journey of a husband-wife duo fighting for authentic representation and a future Broadway bow.
Proud Marys: The Birth of A New Musical
Los Angeles, California | Film Feature
Documentary, Musical
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"Proud Marys" follows creators Jennifer Paz and Anthony Fedorov as they bring their irreverent, pop-infused Filipino-American comedy musical from a viral TV pilot to the NYC stage. This short captures the journey of a husband-wife duo fighting for authentic representation and a future Broadway bow.
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Mission Statement
The Story
Proud Marys: The Birth of a New Musical is more than just a "making-of" movie -- it's a front-row seat to a cultural revolution.
By supporting our campaign, you’re backing a story about the audacity to be seen. You will witness an intimate, high-stakes chronicle of how creators and husband-wife duo Jennifer Paz and Anthony Fedorov channeled personal grief and the complexities of Filipino American identity into a groundbreaking musical. You’ll see the sweat of the workshop room, the vulnerability of the development process, and the relentless fight to bring authentic representation to the world’s biggest stage.
"Proud Marys: The Birth of a New Musical" is more than just a "making of" documentary. Like the musical itself, this documentary is about a family, working together to beat the odds and having a little faith in the process that they're building something meaningful and impactful for their world. We're making this film because the story is one folks rarely get to see on the mainstream stage, and like the subject matter itself, the filmmakers are a Filipino family, too, defying stereotypes and going for their version of the American dream. The filmmakers have previous experience creating, writing, producing and directing documentary films, and we have incredibly high standards to live up to, so please know we'll be using all funds raised for this project in the most resourceful and responsible ways possible. The money we raise will be used immediately towards filmmaking and allow us to see this project through to the end.
The documentary will track the project's rapid ascent through the theater industry's most prestigious development pipelines. Viewers will get to see behind-the-scenes footage from critical industry showcases, including: The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) 36th Annual Festival of New Musicals, and developmental residencies at the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove and East West Players, plus the latest and greatest milestone of the project's high-energy 2026 NYC concert at the Baruch Performing Arts Center featuring a powerhouse cast of Filipino-American talent.
Why support us now? This documentary needs to be made, because very few people care enough to highlight the amazing creative contributions and innovations of immigrant artists of color. As children of immigrants, we want to see more of our stories. As dedicated creatives, we believe in all of our stories. Because for too long, our stories have been sidelined or filtered. This documentary captures a pivotal moment in theater history where the "model minority" myth is shattered by a pop-infused roar. Supporting this film means investing in the visibility of the diaspora and ensuring that the grueling, beautiful journey of Filipino American artists is etched into the cinematic record. We are capturing history in real-time.
Help us prove that our heritage, our struggles, and the bright Broadway dreams of our community, are worth every frame.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Airline Travel Vouchers x 5
Costs $2,500
Airfare for cast and crew traveling between Los Angeles and New York
Food Delivery Gift Cards
Costs $1,000
To feed our hungry cast and crew on locations throughout the city
Ground Transportation
Costs $1,000
For rideshare services for our 10-member crew during long production days in Los Angeles and New York City
Production Team & Crew
Costs $5,500
This is the heart and soul of our production budget. If you'd like to contribute towards this, you'll be contributing to our dream!
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About This Team
Director Ida Anita del Mundo is a multi-hyphenate Filipino American creative passionate about work that is culturally relevant, with diverse representation. She wrote and directed the feature film K’na, the Dreamweaver, which premiered at the 2014 Cinemalaya Film Festival (Manila, Philippines) where it received the awards for Best Production Design and Special Jury Prize. K’na the Dreamweaver also won Best of Show, the top prize at the 2015 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. K’na the Dreamweaver is the first feature film about the Tboli people of South Cotabato, Mindanao and the first film that uses the Tboli language. Ida holds an MFA in Creative Writing from De La Salle University-Manila and an MPS in Directing from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her latest short films Never Forget (Best Ensemble, International Film Festival Manhattan; Best Screenplay, SVA Apple Box Film Festival) and Anna, Greta, Sophie, and the Rainforest (Best Narrative Short, Films for the Forest) have been shown in festivals worldwide. Ida is an active member of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema and has served on the jury of the NETPAC award at prestigious film festivals. Ida is currently based in New York where she is a freelance filmmaker, editor, and graphic designer. She is also a documentary film instructor with the Educational Video Center.
Writer/Producer Jessica del Mundo (she/her/siya) is a Los Angeles-based writer, producer, and senior communications strategist. She currently leads the creative consultancy 10storyhouse and serves as fractional CMO for a leading lifestyle brand and a venture-scale creative studio. Additionally, Jessica is a Special Adviser to the Dean of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film & Television. Renowned for building brand identities and shaping cultural conversations, Jessica bridges the gap between consumer marketing and public relations to deliver award-winning campaigns. Formerly a journalist and news producer, Jessica leverages her deep storytelling roots to drive innovation, balancing her corporate leadership with a thriving career as a producer and cultural advisor in entertainment. Her producing projects include: Crossing Over, Hard 90 to Home, Unforgettable: The Asian American Awards Show, Tonight: Stop Asian Hate, Never Forget, and more. She also spent four years as a senior producer of the Unforgettable Awards, revitalizing the Asian community's signature annual awards show honoring the biggest API names in entertainment, arts, and culture. A graduate of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Jessica earned dual degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. A frequent speaker and mentor, she has guest lectured at UCLA, California State University at Long Beach, Cal State Sacramento, La Salle University, and her alma maters. ABC News and Good Morning America named Jessica to its annual “GMA Inspiration List.” She lives in the greater L.A. area with her family and is fluent in Tagalog/Filipino, 90s R&B, and all things USC.
Creative Producer Jennifer Paz is a self-described "recovering dead ingénue," actor, writer, producer, Jennifer Paz was born in Manila and raised in the Seattle area. Her notable credits include Miss Saigon (1st National Broadway Tour, Helen Hayes Award nom, LA Ovation Award, various regional) Les Miserables (Broadway), David Henry Hwang's revisical Flower Drum Song (pre-Broadway, Mark Taper Forum), and is also known as the voice of "Lapis Lazuli" in the GLAAD Media Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning cult series "Steven Universe." Selected regional/international credits: 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Ordway Center, North Shore Music Theatre, East West Players, and Singapore Repertory Theatre. After years of performing, Paz pivoted her creative journey into writing and producing, and was selected for the Unlock Her Potential mentorship program by mentee Brian Yorkey. She was named Winner of the 2024 APAFT (Asian Pacific American Friends of the Theater) Emerging Playwright Award, a Finalist for the 2025-26 NBC Universal TV Writers Program, a 2024/2025 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist and has earned a dozen screenwriting accolades for her original pilots and short film screenplays, including Winner of Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition 2021 and placements with ScreenCraft 2022, the Academy Qualifying HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition 2021, and Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest 2021, among others. Her original screenplays were featured on the Coverfly All-Time Red List.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Proud Marys: The Birth of a New Musical is more than just a "making-of" movie -- it's a front-row seat to a cultural revolution.
By supporting our campaign, you’re backing a story about the audacity to be seen. You will witness an intimate, high-stakes chronicle of how creators and husband-wife duo Jennifer Paz and Anthony Fedorov channeled personal grief and the complexities of Filipino American identity into a groundbreaking musical. You’ll see the sweat of the workshop room, the vulnerability of the development process, and the relentless fight to bring authentic representation to the world’s biggest stage.
"Proud Marys: The Birth of a New Musical" is more than just a "making of" documentary. Like the musical itself, this documentary is about a family, working together to beat the odds and having a little faith in the process that they're building something meaningful and impactful for their world. We're making this film because the story is one folks rarely get to see on the mainstream stage, and like the subject matter itself, the filmmakers are a Filipino family, too, defying stereotypes and going for their version of the American dream. The filmmakers have previous experience creating, writing, producing and directing documentary films, and we have incredibly high standards to live up to, so please know we'll be using all funds raised for this project in the most resourceful and responsible ways possible. The money we raise will be used immediately towards filmmaking and allow us to see this project through to the end.
The documentary will track the project's rapid ascent through the theater industry's most prestigious development pipelines. Viewers will get to see behind-the-scenes footage from critical industry showcases, including: The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) 36th Annual Festival of New Musicals, and developmental residencies at the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove and East West Players, plus the latest and greatest milestone of the project's high-energy 2026 NYC concert at the Baruch Performing Arts Center featuring a powerhouse cast of Filipino-American talent.
Why support us now? This documentary needs to be made, because very few people care enough to highlight the amazing creative contributions and innovations of immigrant artists of color. As children of immigrants, we want to see more of our stories. As dedicated creatives, we believe in all of our stories. Because for too long, our stories have been sidelined or filtered. This documentary captures a pivotal moment in theater history where the "model minority" myth is shattered by a pop-infused roar. Supporting this film means investing in the visibility of the diaspora and ensuring that the grueling, beautiful journey of Filipino American artists is etched into the cinematic record. We are capturing history in real-time.
Help us prove that our heritage, our struggles, and the bright Broadway dreams of our community, are worth every frame.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Airline Travel Vouchers x 5
Costs $2,500
Airfare for cast and crew traveling between Los Angeles and New York
Food Delivery Gift Cards
Costs $1,000
To feed our hungry cast and crew on locations throughout the city
Ground Transportation
Costs $1,000
For rideshare services for our 10-member crew during long production days in Los Angeles and New York City
Production Team & Crew
Costs $5,500
This is the heart and soul of our production budget. If you'd like to contribute towards this, you'll be contributing to our dream!
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Director Ida Anita del Mundo is a multi-hyphenate Filipino American creative passionate about work that is culturally relevant, with diverse representation. She wrote and directed the feature film K’na, the Dreamweaver, which premiered at the 2014 Cinemalaya Film Festival (Manila, Philippines) where it received the awards for Best Production Design and Special Jury Prize. K’na the Dreamweaver also won Best of Show, the top prize at the 2015 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. K’na the Dreamweaver is the first feature film about the Tboli people of South Cotabato, Mindanao and the first film that uses the Tboli language. Ida holds an MFA in Creative Writing from De La Salle University-Manila and an MPS in Directing from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her latest short films Never Forget (Best Ensemble, International Film Festival Manhattan; Best Screenplay, SVA Apple Box Film Festival) and Anna, Greta, Sophie, and the Rainforest (Best Narrative Short, Films for the Forest) have been shown in festivals worldwide. Ida is an active member of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema and has served on the jury of the NETPAC award at prestigious film festivals. Ida is currently based in New York where she is a freelance filmmaker, editor, and graphic designer. She is also a documentary film instructor with the Educational Video Center.
Writer/Producer Jessica del Mundo (she/her/siya) is a Los Angeles-based writer, producer, and senior communications strategist. She currently leads the creative consultancy 10storyhouse and serves as fractional CMO for a leading lifestyle brand and a venture-scale creative studio. Additionally, Jessica is a Special Adviser to the Dean of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film & Television. Renowned for building brand identities and shaping cultural conversations, Jessica bridges the gap between consumer marketing and public relations to deliver award-winning campaigns. Formerly a journalist and news producer, Jessica leverages her deep storytelling roots to drive innovation, balancing her corporate leadership with a thriving career as a producer and cultural advisor in entertainment. Her producing projects include: Crossing Over, Hard 90 to Home, Unforgettable: The Asian American Awards Show, Tonight: Stop Asian Hate, Never Forget, and more. She also spent four years as a senior producer of the Unforgettable Awards, revitalizing the Asian community's signature annual awards show honoring the biggest API names in entertainment, arts, and culture. A graduate of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Jessica earned dual degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. A frequent speaker and mentor, she has guest lectured at UCLA, California State University at Long Beach, Cal State Sacramento, La Salle University, and her alma maters. ABC News and Good Morning America named Jessica to its annual “GMA Inspiration List.” She lives in the greater L.A. area with her family and is fluent in Tagalog/Filipino, 90s R&B, and all things USC.
Creative Producer Jennifer Paz is a self-described "recovering dead ingénue," actor, writer, producer, Jennifer Paz was born in Manila and raised in the Seattle area. Her notable credits include Miss Saigon (1st National Broadway Tour, Helen Hayes Award nom, LA Ovation Award, various regional) Les Miserables (Broadway), David Henry Hwang's revisical Flower Drum Song (pre-Broadway, Mark Taper Forum), and is also known as the voice of "Lapis Lazuli" in the GLAAD Media Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning cult series "Steven Universe." Selected regional/international credits: 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Ordway Center, North Shore Music Theatre, East West Players, and Singapore Repertory Theatre. After years of performing, Paz pivoted her creative journey into writing and producing, and was selected for the Unlock Her Potential mentorship program by mentee Brian Yorkey. She was named Winner of the 2024 APAFT (Asian Pacific American Friends of the Theater) Emerging Playwright Award, a Finalist for the 2025-26 NBC Universal TV Writers Program, a 2024/2025 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist and has earned a dozen screenwriting accolades for her original pilots and short film screenplays, including Winner of Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition 2021 and placements with ScreenCraft 2022, the Academy Qualifying HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition 2021, and Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest 2021, among others. Her original screenplays were featured on the Coverfly All-Time Red List.