About Us

Emma Wall and Betsy Hershey are co-founders of Guest House Productions, a documentary team dedicated to telling stories that humanize complex issues. Wall’s background in child psychiatry and Hershey’s in music and film inform their collaborative, impact-driven approach. Their debut film, GUERRILLA HABEAS (Executive Produced by Emmy Award winner Trevor Noah and Academy Award winner Michael Sugar) follows two lawyers fighting family separations during the first Trump administration. It premiered at Telluride and aired on MSNBC.

Betsy Hershey - Director/Producer, Co-founder of Guest House Productions

Betsy Hershey is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and musician whose work moves between storytelling and song. In her documentary work she has explored Indigenous maternal health in Mexico, migration in the United States, and the Mind & Life Institute’s ongoing dialogues with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. Hershey co-directed the documentary GUERRILLA HABEAS, which premiered at Telluride in 2022 and later aired as part of Trevor Noah’s The Turning Point on MSNBC.

As the musician BETS, she has released three albums and toured across North America and Europe. Hershey frequently combines her love of film and music. She executive produced PAVEMENTS, an experimental music documentary which premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. She has also created video art with her music that aims to encourage voting, highlight prisoners of conscience, and confront the realities of climate change.

In the spirit of Joan Baez, she treats art as a form of action, holding fast to her words that action is the antidote to despair.

Emma Wall - Director/Producer, Co-founder of Guest House Productions

Emma Wall is a Danish-American filmmaker and child psychiatrist whose work searches for the human center inside overwhelming systems. She studied psychology at Brown University and medicine at Oxford, graduating with honors, then completed psychiatric training at Columbia and Cornell. Her early career took her from the Los Angeles foster care system to refugee camps in Greece and India, to hospitals in Kyrgyzstan and South Africa. Those years taught her how fragile and how resilient people can be.

As global crises deepened, Emma turned to filmmaking as a way to respond. Documentary became a tool not only to observe but to intervene, offering new ways to engage with the urgent and complex challenges shaping our time. Her work confronts issues at the intersection of mental health and human rights, from forced displacement to climate collapse. She is drawn to subjects who find meaning inside chaos and who refuse to give up on hope.

Her debut documentary short, Guerrilla Habeas, co-directed with Betsy Hershey, premiered at Telluride and became part of Trevor Noah’s series The Turning Point on MSNBC. She divides her time between Copenhagen and New York.

Natja Rosner - Producer

Natja Rosner began her career in Denmark at Lars Von Trier’s Zentropa, where she developed her production expertise before transitioning into the international film landscape. Her early work included a pivotal role as Executive Sales Director at TrustNordisk, followed by Director of Global Sales and Acquisitions at LevelK, shaping her deep understanding of both production and distribution. Moving into creative development, she served as Creative Executive at Passenger Productions (Wild Rabbit, This is Pleasure) and later as Associate Producer at Mad Gene Media (Oscar Isaac and Elvira Lind’s production company).

Currently, Natja brings her vast industry experience and visionary perspective to Guest House Productions, where she plays a key role in steering their innovative way of documentary making. Based between Copenhagen and New York, Natja continues to foster a global approach to storytelling, balancing artistic vision with market-driven insight.