Meet the Crew

The talented team behind Nailed It

Adele Free Pham

Director/DP

Adele Free Pham is a mixed race Vietnamese American documentary filmmaker with experience in all aspects of documentary production, including cinematography, editing, and direction. Apart from directing and producing independent projects she has also edited, produced, and DP'd feature documentaries for fellow directors, such as "The Prep School Negro," "The Throwaways," "Rebirth: New Orleans," and "The Forgotten Occupation." Her next feature film is about the legacy of exclusion laws and hate crimes committed in the liberal white bastion of Portland, OR, her hometown.

Jessica Windt

Editor

Dedicated to work that informs public policy and the understanding of the human experience, Jessica Lee Salas first met Nailed It director Adele Pham in the edit room of "The Prep School Negro", a feature documentary directed by Andre Robert Lee and aired on PBS in 2013. Jessica also produced "Resilience" an award winning feature documentary about the impact of international adoption, and edited "Rebirth: New Orleans" a feature doc chronicles the rebuilding of New Orleans' public school system after Hurricane Katrina.

Kelvin Saint Pham

Co-Producer

Kelvin Saint Pham is the creator and producer of VietNAIL.TV, the first Vietnamese nail TV show dedicated to elevating the Vietnamese-American nail community. He has been in the nail industry for 20 years and is a well-known nail professional, salon owner, educator, and consultant. He is also owner and operator of St. K Nail Salon in Los Angeles, CA, which he founded in 1992. Kelvin has traveled the world teaching and sharing his passion for the nail industry to other nail professionals.

Lewis Erskine

Consulting Editor

Lewis Erskine is an Emmy Award winning editor with many years of experience and outstanding documentary films to his credits, including American Experience: Freedom Riders, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Ken Burns' Jazz, and most recently Ken Burns' Jackie Robinson. He is currently teaching editing at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and actively advising filmmaker Adele Pham on her feature length edit of Nailed It.