dafina roberts
Writer, Producer, Director
Dafina is a development executive/ producer/ writer/ director working in television, film and theater, with a specialization in coming-of-age stories. She currently works at Nickelodeon in Development & Production. Previously, she worked with MTV and the Oscar-nominated youth performance company—IMPACT Repertory Theatre.
She also co-produced the coming-of-age feature film, “Punching At The Sun” (Official Selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival; Winner for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.) In addition, she has produced and directed live events at the Starbucks Music Series for the Sundance Film Festival as well as at MTV with the cast of “Fela! On Broadway".