Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, LikeMinds began its partnership in 2014 with a love for cinema and a passion to tell authentic visual stories that are compelling entertainment, giving voice to stories that are not usually heard.
LikeMinds principal partners, Emmy award-winning Producer, PGA/WGA member Lisa N. Lucas and Sundance award-winning editor/producer/director, Sarah J. Gartner, combine nearly 40 years of experience in development and production for series television and feature films. Current projects include: the comedy short film, The Holy Word; the independent feature, They Love, They Lie; and three docu-series for TV, including children’s series Alpha Squad for PBS.
Lisa Lucas is a professional writer/producer/actor. She graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in French Literature and Theater Arts. For the last 27 years, Lisa has produced, written, and developed over 36 TV series which include the popular ABC series The Bachelor, Work of Art on Bravo, and the Emmy winning My 1st Time on NBC. For the last 10 years, she was a part of the producing team behind Silver Bullet Productions award-winning feature documentaries, A Thousand Voices (2015), Defending The Fire (2018), the Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy winning However Wide the Sky (2021) and No Greater Act (2026) which all debuted on PBS and screened at film festivals nationally and around the world. In addition to her partnership in LikeMinds, she is on the board of New Mexico Women in Film. Lisa also hosts, writes and produces Kitchen Bitches, a weekly fb and youtube live cooking show with co-host Debrianna Mansini as well as writing weekly articles for Baking It’s Better Than Murder on substack.com. Their debut cookbook from Apollo Publishers, That Time We Ate Our Feelings, an extension of the series, is available on bookshop.org and barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com.
Sarah Gartner is a principal partner, writer, producer, director, and editor with extensive experience developing projects from concept to pilot and series production. Her work spans scripted and unscripted television, feature films, documentaries, and narrative shorts.
Her credits include the Sundance Award-winning feature film The Tao of Steve, documentaries, narrative shorts, and hundreds of episodes of television for networks including MTV, ABC, NBC, Lifetime, Style, CNN, Travel Channel, and PBS.
Born and raised in Sherman Oaks, California, Sarah earned a degree in Business and Finance from the University of Southern California before pursuing graduate studies in filmmaking at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She began her career as an assistant editor on Young Guns for 20th Century Fox and went on to work on feature films for major studios including Universal, Disney, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros. before advancing to editor. Sarah later spent 17 seasons editing the groundbreaking series The Real World, establishing herself as an expert in unscripted and reality television.
In addition to her work with LikeMinds, Sarah served on the Board of Directors of New Mexico Women in Film in 2020.
