3 Sisters
3 Sisters
Jen, Leslie, & Chris
Yes, we are sisters.
We work globally as independent filmmakers and hired guns.
Television Clients include HBO, PBS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, DISCOVERY, A&E, THE SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL, THE TRAVEL CHANNEL, ANIMAL PLANET.
Commercial Clients P &G, THE BRITISH COUNCIL, MEDIACOM, LEO BURNETT, PFIZER, PERNOD RICARD, FOCUS MEDIA, POLYBANA, CRAIGSLIST and INTEL.
Awards? Lots of them. Multiple CINE GOLD EAGLES, EMMY nominations and top FESTIVAL awards.
We work together, we work separately.
JEN, based in Beijing, produces, directs and writes commercials, web movies, documentaries and feature films.
LESLIE, in Washington, DC produces, directs and writes television and non-broadcast documentaries. She writes fiction—screenplays and prose--as well as poetry.
CHRIS, the New Yorker, is a film and video editor who shapes footage into amazing stories. She often produces the shows she edits, turning her into a Top Predator.
Diverse personalities, common neuroses.
A deep fear of mediocrity drives our masochistic perfectionism, resulting in eye-grabbing, kinetic, utterly original and dazzling films.
We’ll kill ourselves for your program.
3 Sisters Pictures operates as an independent production company.
More About Us
Leslie
Leslie
LESLIE SCHWERIN has worked as a documentary producer, director and writer for the past two decades.
Her subjects have ranged far and wide: giant squid, musty old Egyptian mummies, inscrutable butlers who know where the bodies are buried, mad scientists with an attitude, volcanoes that tend to over-share, and the classic: girl fish meets girl fish and then turns into a boy fish.
Her films have landed on HBO, PBS, MTV, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and DISCOVERY.
Christina
Christina
CHRISTINA SCHWERIN edits films for National Geographic Television, Discovery, A&E, Animal Planet, Bravo and The Travel Channel.
Her work includes “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,” several episodes of the acclaimed A&E series “The First 48,” National Geographic Explorer’s “The Science of Evil,” and episodes of “Dual Survival,” for Discovery.
Jennifer
Jennifer
JENNIFER SCHWERIN is an award-winning filmmaker with roots in both the American and Chinese film and TV industry.
In the States, Jennifer made documentary films for HBO and PBS and was nominated for an Emmy award for her short fiction video work. In China, she created the first mainland Chinese short films for MTV Asia before becoming the Creative Director of MTV China in the late 90’s.
Taking her expertise in short-format, highly creative content, Jennifer founded TaDaa! Media as a platform to create branded content and original content for new media platforms. She has coined the term- ANTI-COMMERCIALS to describe the unique branded content work that she is doing.