ausinikka
(neeka)
New Orleans native, filmmaker, producer, and storyteller whose work explores folklore and cultural preservation in the Gulf South.
Associate Producer of the acclaimed documentary The Inquisitor, directed by Angela Tucker and produced by Trevite Willis and Moira Griffin. The film chronicles the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan, whose unwavering commitment to justice transformed American politics and inspired generations to come. It premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival and was selected as the inaugural film for PBS Documentaries' online platform.
She also served as a Field Producer for Class Action, hosted by Katie Phang, and is the director of Orí, which premiered as a Marquee Selection at the New Orleans Film Festival and screened at the Black and Brown Femme Film Festival. She was selected as a 2024 South Pitch Finalist and a Forum RIDM Fellow for the documentary project Queen of the Pen. Her work centers stories that connect personal memory, community history, and cultural legacy.
A creative house for memory, folklore, and cultural record.
Liminal Garden of Lore is a cinematic studio devoted to cultivating stories rooted in oral history, family mythology, folklore, and cultural memory. It is a garden because these narratives are living things: inherited, tended, and continuously growing across generations. It is liminal because the work dwells in the spaces between reality and fiction, memory and imagination, ritual and archive, uncovering the unseen threads that bind people to place, ancestry, and one another.
