None of This Matters

Director Shaina Feinberg, Producers Elisabeth Durkin and Judith Mizrachy

Struggling filmmaker Shaina Feinberg travels to Maine to interview trailblazing television director and teacher Joan Darling, now 91. Over years of filming, the intended biopic transforms into an intimate, vérité portrait of two artists at different points of their lives, finding unexpected connection.

None of This Matters was selected as the recipient of the 2025 JFI/JSP Momentum Award.

Shaina Feinberg

Director

Shaina Feinberg is an award-winning American filmmaker and writer. She directed two short documentaries for The New York Times: A Brief History of Hating My Face (2023) and I Almost Quit My Career for My Kids. Then I Met Joan Darling. (2025). Shaina was a 2025 resident at JFI with her feature None of This Matters, which was awarded a 2026 NYSCA grant and the Creative Spirit Award from the Sundance Documentary Fund in 2026. She is a 2026 Gotham Series Creator to Watch.

Elisabeth Durkin

Producer

Elisabeth Durkin has produced work that has been commissioned by The New York Times, Audible, Topic, Uninterrupted, and BRICtv. She co-owns Zerocool, a New York– and L.A.–based production company, and has created branded content for clients such as Macy’s, Maybelline, Dress for Success, Alliance Bernstein and Martha Stewart. Recent work includes: Cleo From 8:20 to 2:35 (2024 NYFA grant recipient), We Should Eat (2025 Caz Matthews Award at SeriesFest), and the feature documentary None of This Matters (2026 NYSCA grant) about Hollywood legend Joan Darling and featuring Marisa Tomei and The Daniels.

Judith Mizrachy

Producer

Judith Mizrachy is a New York City-based independent producer. Her films include The Martha Mitchell Effect, which premiered at Sundance in 2022, was released globally on Netflix, and was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary; The Booksellers, which premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2019 and was released theatrically around the world; and Uncropped, which launched as the Centerpiece at DOC NYC in 2023 and was named “One of the Best Documentaries of the Year” by Variety. Her most recent projects include Maintenance Artist (Tribeca 2025), and the short documentary Women Laughing, which will be released on The New Yorker in 2026.