Hayley Pappas is the Head of RYOT Films, the film and television development division of groundbreaking media brand RYOT. As Head of RYOT Films, Pappas runs all content and creative strategy – overseeing industry partnerships, content development, packaging and distribution, and all ancillary marketing campaigns. With RYOT, Pappas has produced a slate of critically acclaimed documentaries, including two Oscar-nominated shorts: Body Team 12 and Watani: My Homeland. Additionally, Pappas has produced over a dozen virtual reality films with partners such as NPR and the Associated Press. Pappas—whose work covers topics including sexual assault, solitary confinement and mass executions—has sold projects to HBO, MTV, Hulu and Apple, among many others, and premiered her work at prestigious festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and Hot Docs. This year, Pappas premiered two new RYOT projects at the Sundance Film Festival: feature documentary On Her Shoulders, produced by Pappas which took home the Directing Award for US Documentary and sold to Oscilloscope; and virtual reality film Dinner Party, co-produced by Pappas. Most recently, Pappas executive produced four more projects that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival this April -- feature documentary Satan & Adam, short documentary Everything Is Stories, AR project Terminal 3, and VR experience Vestige.