Every story begins within.
ABOUT US
Interior Pictures is an independently financed, boutique film and television production company dedicated to elevated, character-driven storytelling. We develop projects from the inside out, grounded in emotional truth, vulnerability, and restraint—and crafted to feel lived in rather than manufactured.
Our work centers on the inner lives of people in process: the unspoken moments, quiet reckonings, and subtle transformations where identity takes form and hope is illuminated. Connection emerges not through scale or spectacle, but through deeply human experiences with universal resonance.
To us, how a story is made shapes what it becomes. We value every contribution and trust in the collective intelligence of our team to elevate both the work and the experience of making it. The result is intentional work informed by the same humanity it depicts, with depth and weight that stay with you long after the screen goes dark.
TEAM
RAFAEL MONSERRATE
Co-founder, Director
Rafael Monserrate is an accomplished Executive Producer, Showrunner, and Director with more than two decades of experience creating acclaimed unscripted and narrative content. He has executive produced and directed over a dozen television series, including Alone, the award-winning survival series hailed by The New Yorker as “the best reality show on television,” now in its 13th critically acclaimed season and streaming on Netflix. A two-time feature film director, his credits include Peel (Sony Pictures), starring Emile Hirsch.
His work spans large-scale competition formats, intimate documentaries, and character-driven narrative films, unified by a cinematic sensibility and a commitment to emotional truth. Most recently, he directed, executive produced, and completed production on Teenhood, a four-part docuseries offering unprecedented access to four American teens over 50 transformative days. He is currently developing The Colony, a feature film exploring the formative years and ideological awakening of Malcolm X. Across formats, Rafael crafts stories that are intimate yet expansive, grounded in lived experience, and designed to resonate long after the screen goes dark.
JANE HOFFMAN
Co-founder, Producer
Jane Hoffman is the Founder of Mood Media Productions, a storytelling company dedicated to exploring mental health and the emotional interior of the human experience through film and television. A visual artist for more than 25 years working under the name Jane Maxwell Studio, her practice has long centered on the unseen forces that shape identity, memory, and growth. What began as intimate, contemplative studio work evolved naturally into cinematic storytelling grounded in vulnerability, psychological depth, and human connection.
She is the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Teenhood, a recently completed four-part docuseries capturing adolescence with rare intimacy and unprecedented access, and a Producing Partner on The Colony, a feature film in development exploring the formative years and ideological awakening of Malcolm X. Jane is also the Founder of the nonprofit Mood.org and The Mood Tools App, bringing evidence-based emotional regulation tools to tweens, teens, and the adults in their lives. Across art, media, and social impact, her work reflects a singular commitment to emotional truth and a belief that examining our inner worlds is essential to personal and collective growth.
JULIE MONSERRATE
Co-founder, Producer
Julie Monserrate is a seasoned Brand and Marketing Strategist and Television Producer with more than 25 years of experience shaping Fortune 100 brands and breakthrough storytelling. She has held leadership roles at CBS Television and led high-impact brand and marketing initiatives for major entertainment companies including Viacom, Paramount Global, VH1, CBS, Universal Pictures, and Telemundo.
Her career sits at the intersection of strategy and story. She brings a brand-builder’s rigor to creative development, ensuring that ideas are culturally relevant, structurally sound, and emotionally resonant. She is the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Teenhood, a recently completed four-part docuseries offering unprecedented access to four American teens navigating the complex threshold of becoming, and the Co-Creator and Co-Producer of The Colony, a feature film in development exploring the formative years and ideological awakening of Malcolm X. Across mediums, Julie fuses strategic clarity with creative intuition to develop stories that endure. She is driven by a belief that the most powerful narratives not only reflect culture, but shape it.