Jenna Kelly

Jenna is the head of production at Optimist. She was the producer of the feature documentary This is Not Financial Advice (Tribeca 2023) and Five Years North (PBS) which won the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC. That film was a finalist for the 2021 duPont-Columbia Awards for Outstanding Journalism.

Jenna also produced the award-winning short documentary, The Undocumented Lawyer, which was released on HBO, as well as All Things Metal, which was acquired by Rolling Stone, and an animated history short narrated by Tom Hanks that was acquired by The Washington Post. In 2025, she’ll premiere another feature film, State of Firsts, at Tribeca Film Festival.