Co-Founder, Ray Nowosielski is an Emmy-nominated, non-fiction filmmaker, and writer with a passion for true stories.
His documentary collaborations as a producer with two-time Oscar-winning director Barbara Kopple include the NAACP Image Award nominated Miss Sharon Jones, a Netflix Original about the relationship between Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon, Tricky Dick & the Man in Black, the poignant true crime self-help mashup A Murder in Mansfield and their latest about an early U.S. Special Ops rescue missions, Desert One. Barbara and Ray have recently completed the film, Gumbo Coalition, following modern Black and Latino civil rights leaders through the Trump era. Visit Double Asterisk Media for True Stories podcast collaborations.
Ray directed on the Emmy-nom 3rd season of VICE on HBO, was consulting producer for the pilot of Amazon Original The New Yorker Presents and contributed to investigations by The Daily Beast, Gawker, The Intercept and Newsweek. He is a proud Chicagoland native, later transplanted to Indianapolis and eventually Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, and New York City.
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Ruth Vaca is the Co-Founder, along with Ray Nowosielski at True Stories since 2020.
For over 15 years, she's provided production, public relations, and marketing services and support to independent films and fine art artists, such as Drexel Box Productions through her own previous freelance company, The Lo’ Stamp in New York City, L.A., and Austin. She was associate producer on the Off-Broadway play Swimming with the Polar Bears and the film Luz Marina, which premiered at HBO’s NY Latino Film Festival. Ruth also worked as international marketing coordinator of The Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles and marketing coordinator at PEOPLE Magazine and PEOPLE en Español in New York City. She contributed a variety of content from food recipes to entertainment coverage for MyLatinoVoice.com.
As a vegetarian/vegan chef and writer, she hosts @VeganishVegetarian on IG, FB and TikTok. Currently she also works as the admin. coordinator for La Casa-Latino Cultural Center at Indiana University, Bloomington. Ruth continues to explore and produce in entertainment to create and support independent artists, herself and Co-Founder, Ray Nowosielski via True Stories, plus advocate within the Latine community.
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Today, Ruth and Ray live in the Midwest with their son. Together they will host their own self-aware, and at times deprecating, fun, yet informational podcast: Everybody Has a Podcast- with Ruth and Ray. Weekly episodes coming late 2023.
RAY’S SELECT FEATURE FILMS & OTHER WORKS
Producer. 2022. Gumbo Coalition: Two Black and Latinx civil rights champions join forces to fight structural racism amid a troubling resurgence of white supremacy.
Producer. 2018. Netflix. Production Company: All Rise Films / Triage Entertainment; Directors: Barbara Kopple, Sara Dosa
Producer. 2017. Investigation Discovery. Production Company: Cabin Creek Films; Director: Barbara Kopple
Consulting Producer. 2015. Limited Theatrical/Starz. Production Company: Cabin Creek Films; Director: Barbara Kopple
Producer. 2016. Discovery Channel. Production Company: Telling Pictures Directors: Barbara Kopple, Jesse Moss, Alan & Susan Raymond
Co-Director, Producer, Writer. 2015. “Sweet Home Alabama”. VICE on HBO S03E07. Production Company: VICE, Co-Directors: Thomas Morton, Andy Capper
"The Watchdogs Didn't Bark:The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror." Co-Author. 2018. Skyhorse Publishing.