Lati Grobman kept pestering her good friend, actress Christa Campbell, to try her hand at producing. Campbell wanted to keep acting, but the idea had wormed its way into her brain, and Grobman had her on a hook. "I think the seed was planted," Grobman told Headlines & Global News in an exclusive interview with her producing partner Campbell. "Even when you say 'no' to things, you still listen and take it in."

They started producing together in 2011 and made their partnership official when they created their production company, Campbell Grobman Films, a few years later on the advice of prolific film salesman Danny Dimbort.

"He said, 'You two need to partner up and start a company. You two need to work together as an actual team. You're already doing it. You're already friends,'" Campbell recalled.

The company allowed the two women to split up and focus on individual projects, but run everything through one entity. "We are essentially one person," Campbell said.

Their latest production, the Netflix documentary "Winter on Fire," about the recent Ukrainian revolution, hit especially close to home for Grobman, who was born in Russia. She credits herself as a news junkie, but was unaware of the peaceful-turned-violent student protests in 2013 and 2014 calling for the resignation of the nation's president.

"Being from that part of the world, you'd expect of me to know what's going on there because you're always interested in the place that you came from," Grobman said. "But I had no idea what was going on in the Ukraine. I had no clue."

The filmmaker, Evgeny Afineevsky, brought the producers a cut of "Winter on Fire" and the footage leveled them. The lack of mainstream media covering the events also factored into their decision to back the documentary.

"To see it was absolutely devastating, and I thought it was very important for everyone to see it. It's just human beings, just like me and you, going out there on the streets and protesting what's going on in their country and not being violent, just protesting and going out with signs. They're being shot by snipers. You have to show that to the world," an impassioned Grobman said.

After seeing the film, Grobman and Campbell then needed to find the perfect place to distribute it. They decided to go back to Netflix, who had screened their previous production, "Brave Miss World."

"Netflix made this movie what it is. They are creative. They are involved in every sense of the word," Grobman said.

But Grobman gives her greatest praise to Afineevsky as the director put himself on the front lines of the revolution to tell the incredible story.

"Without him there would be nothing because he's the one who risked his life to make this movie," she said. "We were not in the front lines shooting the footage. We were just in our nice homes in Los Angeles watching it. The director deserves mostly all the credit."

Documentaries might shine a light on important topics, but rarely bring in much money. To keep their company afloat, Grobman and Campbell also need to attract investors with potential box office hits, like big action franchises, clever thrillers and films with big names attached.

"Before our passion, we are businesswomen first," Grobman said about the projects they produce. "We take our investors money, we can't come up with an art movie that only five intellectuals would watch. Even if we love it."

A major franchise the women do love is "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" — and they are bringing back the notorious Leatherface for a prequel about the teenage version of the chainsaw-wielding killer.

"It's basically a story of how Leatherface became who he is and what makes one become the monster. Is he born like that?" Campbell explained. "[It's] a little bit of a throwback to the original and also a really gory, fun road trip."

Also ahead from Campbell Grobman Films are "Experimenter," about Stanley Milgram's controversial behavioral tests in the '60s; "Criminal," featuring an all-star cast that includes Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman and Gal Gadot; and the recently announced "The Bleeder" with Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts.

Campbell continues to act, but producing has provided her a whole different experience in the world of movies.

"It's different. When you're producing, the thrill — it's actually probably a sickness — is putting the deal together and working the elements of putting the actors, the director, the script and everything it takes to put the movie together," Campbell said. "It's not like I prefer one over the other. They're completely different."

"Winter on Fire" is now streaming on Netflix. "Leatherface" and "Criminal" will premiere in 2016, and "Experimenter" comes out in limited release Oct. 16.