THROUGH THE EYES OF A DEATH DOULA
Learn about the filmmakers behind the story
meet THE TEAM
Capucine Salvi-Offer
Director
Capucine Salvi-Offer is a French-Australian filmmaker based in Los Angeles, specializing in projects that fuse narrative and documentary. Raised in both Paris and Australia, her passion for cinema was nurtured by her cinephile parents, leading her to study Documentary Practice and Film Production at Queen Mary University of London and USC.
Capucine focuses on telling authentic and ethically-driven stories. Her documentary 'Blood and Dust' captured a family’s life in the remote West Australian wilderness, highlighting themes of resilience and survival. 'Knitting for Knockers' sheds light on a community of women who knit prosthetics for breast cancer survivors, offering an intimate look at compassion.
'Through the Eyes of a Death Doula', her first feature-length documentary, explores the transformative role of death doulas. This film is deeply personal to Capucine, as it examines the universal human experience of death. With it, she aims to shift perceptions around death and encourage a dialogue about mortality.
Catalina Parra
Director of Photography
Catalina Parra is a cinematographer from Houston, Texas, who studied in Chicago before earning her MFA in Cinematography and Directing from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in 2022. Her work has screened at Outfest and the Beverly Hills Film Festival, and she was nominated for Best Cinematography at Camerimage in 2023. She also runs her own videography business.
Tony Tehle
Producer
Tony Tehle is an independent producer born in Dallas, raised in Nashville, and based in Los Angeles. A 2021 USC graduate, he spent years as a gaffer and key grip on projects for Netflix, Disney/ABC, and HBO before moving into producing. His credits include Natural Selection (2024), a Netflix/NALIP short, and the indie feature Henry’s Ebb (2025).
Producer
Mara Kikuchi
Mara Kikuchi is a producer and writer working between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied writing with Penn Mullin and at Sarah Lawrence College under Victoria Redel, continued at Queen Mary University of London, and holds technical writing certification from UC Berkeley. Her previous work includes the award-winning short Belly Belly. Her connection to this film began with the loss of her grandmother.
Editor
Marie Lessel
Marie Lessel is an editor from Copenhagen, Denmark, and an MFA graduate from the prestigious USC School of Cinematic Arts.
With over 10 years of experience in editing, her work spans reality television, documentaries, features, and shorts, with films showcased at festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, and HollyShorts.
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Some of her notable credits include 'Diane Warren: Relentless', 'MasterChef Denmark', 'The Spirit Became Flesh', 'Madness Incarnate', and working with Michael Mann on 'Ferrari – Behind the Scenes'.
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Having lost her mother at a young age, Marie is deeply drawn to stories that explore the many nuanced ways humans process grief and death, bringing a profound and personal perspective to her work.
Matthew O'Connor
Composer
Matthew O’Connor is a Vancouver-based film and game composer and a graduate of USC’s Master of Music Screen Scoring program. He scored Good Bad Things, directed by Shane Stanger, now on Apple TV and Prime Video. In games, he co-composed music for Disney Mirrorverse and worked as a music editor on Minecraft Legends, a 2023 Music + Sound Awards finalist.
