Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, LikeMinds began their partnership in 2014 with a love for cinema and a passion to tell authentic visual stories that are compelling entertainment, giving a voice to those stories that are not usually heard.
LikeMinds principal partners, Emmy award-winning Producer, PGA/WGA member Lisa N. Lucas and Sundance award-winning editor/producer, Sarah J. Gartner, combine nearly 40 years of experience in development and production for series television and feature films. Current projects include: the comedy short film, The Holy Word, screening in film festivals 2022/23, the independent feature, They Love, They Lie and three docu-series for TV.
Lisa Lucas,
is a professional writer/producer/actor. She graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in French Literature and Theater Arts. For the last 25 years, Lisa has produced, written and developed over 37 TV series which include the popular ABC series The Bachelor, Work of Art on Bravo and the Emmy winning My 1st Time on NBC. She has also produced several feature documentaries with Silver Bullet Productions including, A Thousand Voices, which debuted on PBS in 2015 as well as the Emmy nominated Defending The Fire, in 2017 and the Emmy award winning, However Wide the Sky, in 2021. In addition to her partnership in LikeMinds, Lisa was a part of the Santa Fe University of Art & Design Film School academic community for 4 years where she taught Advanced Production and Finance, Indie Film 101 as well as History of Women in Cinema courses. She is the President of New Mexico Women in Film (since 2020). And she hosts and writes Corona Kitchen, a weekly fb live and youtube cooking show with co-host Debrianna Mansini. Their debut cookbook from Apollo Publishers, That Time We Ate Our Feelings, an extension of the series, drops April 2023 on amazon, bookshop.org and barnesandnoble.com.
Sarah Gartner, principal partner is a writer/producer/director and editor. Experienced in concept development through to pilot and series. Accomplished in a variety of genres, credits include Sundance Award winning feature film The Tao of Steve, documentaries, narrative shorts and hundreds of episodes of series television for networks that include MTV, ABC, NBC, Lifetime, Style, Travel Channel, PBS, and more.
Born and raised in Sherman Oaks, California, and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Business & Finance. Sarah went on to pursue a graduate film degree at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Right out of film school Sarah was hired on her first feature film Young Guns for 20th Century Fox as an assistant editor. She continued on to many feature films as an assistant editor working for such studios as Universal, Disney, Sony, Warner Bros. etc. After many years of working on feature films and becoming an editor, Sarah had the opportunity to work on the ground breaking television series "The Real World". She worked on this series for 17 seasons, becoming an expert in unscripted/reality television. Along with her work with LikeMinds, Sarah is a newly elected board member of New Mexico Women in Film (2020).
