Meagan Adele Lopez is a Cuban-American filmmaker, producer, and due to her background in marketing and theatre, she is also the professional asker of the question everyone else was hoping to avoid: What is this story actually about? Why does this matter, and to whom?

Based in France and working across Europe and the United States, she is the founder of Lady Who Productions, an independent film house built for bold human stories, complicated characters, and projects that refuse to behave neatly.

Lopez trained at the Baltimore School for the Arts before attending the University of Southern California as a National Hispanic Scholar and Dean’s Scholar. She later studied at La Sorbonne, took screenwriting at UCLA, and trained in documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School. In other words, she has spent an unreasonable amount of time in classrooms learning how to break the rules properly.

Her career began in Los Angeles, where she worked in casting on studio films including Juno, Wanted, and The Day the Earth Stood Still. There, she learned an essential truth about filmmaking: the right person walking into the room can change the entire story.

Then came an unexpected detour through the internet.

Lopez co-founded SocialKaty, one of the early social media agencies in Chicago, which was later acquired by Manifest Digital. She went on to lead global digital advertising at The New York Times, working at the intersection of story, culture, technology, and audience long before every filmmaker was expected to understand all four.

She eventually returned to the place she had been heading all along: behind the camera.

Through Lady Who, Lopez builds productions across the Atlantic, navigating the creative, cultural, and practical realities of working between France and the United States. Her work lives somewhere between cinema, culture, and the strange decisions people make when they are trying to become themselves.

She finds the story. Builds the team. Questions the obvious answer. Thinks about the audience without underestimating them. And carries projects from the first dangerous idea to the moment they finally meet the world.

Preferably with the mystery still intact.