In 2015, Tehrany, became an executive producer of the feature film "Birth of A Nation", directed by Nate Parker. The film stars Parker as Nat Turner, the African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of both free and enslaved blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in 60 white and more black deaths. The film was to make its world premiere in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, and won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Fox Searchlight Pictures bought worldwide rights to the film in a deal, the largest deal at the film festival to date.