Now, she’s channeling that same tenacity into her first feature-length documentary, Man Camp—a deeply personal project rooted in her own family history. The film explores the wild experiment her father co-founded along with Jamonn Roberts.

In 2005: a summer camp where 20+ boys were given the freedom to run wild, push boundaries, and create their own stories of chaos, absurdity, and hilarity. For years, people told her: “That needs to be a movie. No one would ever believe it actually happened.”
Armed with thousands of photos, hours of archival audio, and fresh interviews with the founders and former campers, Ava is bringing this unbelievable true story to life for the first time. Man Camp isn’t just a documentary—it’s the preservation of a time and place that could never happen again, told with the authenticity and energy of someone who lived inside the legend.