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The Work

Stories in production, in print, in sound, and still becoming.

The Lily House Studio team filming on location in California

Flagship Series

In Search Of… Healing

Documentary Series · In Production

After a car accident turns her world upside down, filmmaker Jhaynane Bastien sets out across California to explore what it truly takes to heal, rebuild, and begin again.

Part documentary. Part personal archive. Part road story.

A cinematic, seven-episode documentary series filmed across California. Premiering Spring 2027.

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The Verticals

One world, many windows.

Alongside the flagship series, Lily House Studio produces a slate of vertical series for TikTok and Instagram — six series, one world, each one opening a different door into the same journey.

Vertical · Culinary Reflection Series

From Scratch

Cooking and baking through the lens of life, patience, care, nourishment, and the lessons we learn when we make something from the beginning.

"When you start your life over from scratch, you learn…"

Vertical · Road Reflection Series

Rules of the Road

Road trip visuals, movement, landscapes, and life lessons gathered while moving through the world.

Every road teaches us something about how to live.

Vertical · Human Portrait Series

The Hands That Heal Us

Intimate stories of healers, teachers, and practitioners, centered on the life experiences that shaped who they are and how they came to guide others.

Meet the people helping us heal.

Vertical · Place-Based Documentary Series

The Land That Holds Us

California landscapes seen through the perspectives of the people who live there, revealing how place shapes memory, identity, and belonging.

Discover the places that help us remember who we are.

Vertical · Craftsmanship Portrait Series

The Hands That Made It

Stories of the makers behind the objects, tools, and products we use, revealing the human hands and care behind what supports our lives.

Every product was made by someone on their own journey.

Vertical · Building-in-Public Docuseries

Brick by Brick

A real-time series following the rebuilding of a life and the building of Lily House Studio from the ground up.

Every house gets built one brick at a time.


In Print & In Sound
Substack Publication

The Power of BEliving

Essays and letters written from inside the becoming — not from the other side of it, where everything is already resolved and the lesson has a bow on it. By Jhaynane Bastien.

Coming July 2026
Audio Series

BEliving Podcast

Conversations with women who left the safe thing for the true thing — told from the middle of becoming.

Coming Soon
In Development

Future Projects

Documentaries, books, audio, and experiences still taking shape — stories about identity, freedom, memory, and what it means to begin again.

In Development

The Builders

Lily House Studio is being shaped by a small circle of storytellers, producers, artists, and image-makers helping bring each story into form.

Jhaynane Bastien, founder, writer, and producerHeadshot · Jhaynane Bastien

Jhaynane Bastien

Founder / Creative Director / Writer / Producer

Jhaynane is the founder and creative director of Lily House Studio and the central figure of In Search Of… Healing. Her work explores healing, authorship, self-trust, identity, and what it means to begin again.

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Maya Carolina, producer and social storytellerHeadshot · Maya Carolina

Maya Carolina

Producer / Social Storytelling

Maya is a brand storyteller and content producer whose work lives at the intersection of culture, creativity, and strategy. She supports In Search Of… Healing and the Lily House Studio social ecosystem through production, behind-the-scenes storytelling, and content strategy.

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Senda Bonnet, director of photographyHeadshot · Senda Bonnet

Senda Bonnet

Director of Photography

Senda Bonnet is an award-winning French cinematographer and producer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of La Femis, she has built an international career crafting visually striking and emotionally resonant stories across narrative, documentary, commercial, and branded work.

As Director of Photography for In Search Of… Healing, Senda brings a naturalistic, cinematic eye to the road, shaping the visual language of the series through images that hold intimacy, landscape, and emotional texture.

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About the Work

Lily House Studio's body of work includes In Search Of… Healing (cinematic documentary series, premiering Spring 2027), a short-form series slate — From Scratch, Rules of the Road, The Hands That Heal Us, The Land That Holds Us, and The Hands That Made ItThe Power of BEliving (Substack publication), and the BEliving Podcast (in development). All productions are built on the BEliving framework and created in Los Angeles, California.