Karina Ripper is a first-generation Mexican-American and former Texan, where she studied film pro- duction at the University of North Texas while hustling nights in a newsroom as a floor director and camera operator. In New York City, she worked on television series productions for National Geographic WILD and the Discovery Channel. Her most recent short film, “The Child and The Dead” (Producer, Co-Director) screened at the 2016 Mill Valley, Maryland, St. Louis, Indie Memphis Film Festivals, and received the award for best short at the Bend Film Festival and Oregon Independent Film Festivals. She works as a producer and post supervisor on commercial campaigns for clients such as Nike and Adidas and most recently was an Associate Producer on Beware the Slenderman, a feature length documentary for HBO Films that premiered in 2017.