VESTIBULE

VESTIBULE is the story of one woman’s fight for sexual health, pleasure, and bodily autonomy. Through imaginative dance sequences and intimate voiceover, Riley chronicles her decade-long journey with Vestibulodynia — a vulvovaginal disorder. What begins as a quest for pain-free sex becomes a multigenerational story of resilience, dignity, and self-discovery.

PRODUCER

Bryn Silverman is a producer, director, and editor whose work has been distributed by Netflix, and premiered at Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca. She produced and co-edited the short film PINBALL (dr. Naveen Chaubal), and is currently producing its feature adaptation, supported by ITVS, the Southern Doc Fund, the Center for Asian American Media, and the Sundance Institute. She is a Southern Producers’ Lab Fellow with the New Orleans Film Society, and an Associate Programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival.

DIRECTOR

Riley Hooper is a documentary film director and editor. Her short documentaries have won numerous “Best of festival” awards and screened at festivals across the U.S. and internationally — including Hot Docs, Camden, and DOC NYC. Her films have appeared on The New York Times Op Docs, Vimeo Staff Picks, Short of the Week, and The New Yorker. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.

PRODUCER

Caitlin Mae Burke Caitlin Mae Burke is an Emmy-winning producer and Oscar-shortlisted Executive Producer whose eleven lauded feature films have been broadcast and screened in theaters internationally, and premiered at the Sundance, CPH:DOX, Tribeca, and Berlinale. As a supervising and executive producer, she has overseen over 110 short documentaries from development through distribution in her role as Co-Director of IF/Then Shorts at Field of Vision. She is now the Head of Production and Development at Sandbox Films.

We’re at a pivotal stage in production, having recently received support from the Sundance Documentary Fund and The Vagina Collective, and won both the 2024 Points North pitch and the 2023 U.S. New Visions Forum pitch!

With this momentum, we were able to film an initial round of proof-of-concept dance sequences last fall. Our small team has come far on our own, but we need partners for this exciting next phase of production.