Team — LOVED BY

Team LOVEDby

JINA PANEBIANCO is a producer with more than two decades of experience developing, financing, and producing film and television. She is a co-founding partner of CaliWood Pictures, where she has produced more than 25 feature films since the company’s inception in late 2019. Her credits include A NICE GIRL LIKE YOU, starring Lucy Hale; ERIC LARUE, Michael Shannon’s directorial debut, starring Judy Greer and Alexander Skarsgård; MACK & RITA, starring Diane Keaton; LANSKY, starring Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington; FAMOUS, the A24 dark comedy/thriller starring Zac Efron and Phoebe Dynevor; and GOODRICH, starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis. Jina recently founded Cardinal North Entertainment, a production and finance company dedicated to deeply human, wildly commercial stories that feel personal, travel widely, and create meaningful value. Her first feature under the new banner is Paul Schrader’s upcoming thriller NON COMPOS MENTIS, currently in pre-production, starring Liam Hemsworth, Sam Worthington, and Cara Delevingne.

TAJ SANGHA is the pilot writer of LOVED BY and a South Asian creative (by way of Canada), who has built an impressive and varied body of work at a young age. Her pilot PARTY GIRL, centered on a fish-out-of-water party planner in Mumbai, is optioned by producer Todd Berger with Vijal Patel (THE PRADEEPS OF PITTSBURGH) on board as showrunner. Taj is currently working on the USA Network’s TV series ANNA PIGEON, and her feature horror script SEED has attached Erica Scoggins (director of the award-winning short BOOGEYWOMAN) and Amélie Hoeferle (star of STERLING POINT). Taj brings a sharp, contemporary voice to stories about women navigating identity, ambition, and relationships.

AYN GAILEY is a writer, producer, and creator whose work explores love, sex, culture, and identity. Her memoir, Pornology, was published in multiple languages and adapted into the 2020 feature A NICE GIRL LIKE YOU, starring Lucy Hale, which debuted as the #1 romantic comedy on Apple and Amazon. Her three-year Sex y LA column for Los Angeles Magazine’s bicultural sister publication Tu Ciudad provides the original inspiration for LOVED BY. Her essays have appeared in ELLE (UK), COSMO (Germany), Latina, and Kinfolk’s award-winning coffee table book series. After graduating from Harvard, she earned an MFA at UCLA Film School. Her work has earned a Women in Film, ABC, and Francis Ford Coppola graduate award, a Writers Guild of Canada nomination in drama, a Pushcart Prize nomination, an Artist Trust Award, and a Hedgebrook Residency. Her scripts have been semi-finalists in the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and The Writer’s Lab.

Jina Panebianco can be reached at (310) 663-4879