Mashka Wolfe and her family came from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s as refugees, and ever since then she’s lived in Los Angeles. Mashka got the opportunity to talk about her family’s refugee experience while writing and performing in The New Colossus, a play directed by Academy Award winner Tim Robbins that she helped develop at The Actors Gang Theater in Culver City. The New Colossus toured North and South America from 2019 to 2020.
After getting her BA in Photography from University of California Santa Cruz, Mashka started her career as a freelance photographer and photoshoot producer before working as a digital retoucher and master printer at Los Angeles’s last commercial darkroom, Schulman Photo Lab, where she worked on fine art exhibitions for David Lynch, Jeff Bridges, Melvin Sokolski, Autumn de Wilde, Estevan Oriol and many more. She also did extensive photo restoration for Taschen’s archives.
She made her transition into film production full time following the success of Y2K Babes, and absurdist feminist comedy pilot she co-wrote with Jaden LeBel at Dan Harmon’s Channel 101. Mashka and Jaden founded Babes, a Production Company in 2022 with the goal of bringing more women, POC, and LGBTQ+ folks into creative positions in the film industry. Since then she’s worked on commercials, music videos, social content, and pilots for Carvana, Spectrum, Grubhub, NRG, 100 Thieves, Sapnap, NYX Professional Makeup, Estate Media, Universal Music, Island Records, and more.
In 2023, Mashka produced her first horror feature film, The Haunted Forest, with Crazy Lake Pictures. The Haunted Forest had it’s world premier at FrightFest London in 2025 and is being distributed by Quiver. Her second feature film, Emily’s Dead, is slated to premiere in 2026.
SKILLS:
Creative Direction / Leadership / Teamwork / Budgeting / Payroll / Scheduling / Hiring Crew / Negotiating Rates / Client Management / Union Contracts / Film Tax Credits / Post Production Management / Casting / Video Editing / Film Production / Social Media Management / Screenwriting / Deck Building
Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Premiere Pro / Asana / Google Docs / Slack / Canva / IOS / Windows / Airtable / Instagram / Tiktok / YouTube
Photoshoot Production / Photography / Retouching / Photo Printing
Mashka Wolfe 