MOTORSPORTS & MOTION PICTURE
PORSCHE MONTEREY social media (& events)
Producer, Manager // Customer Experience
ABOUT: Conceptualize, produce and manage Porsche branded social media content, including start to finish coverage of Porsche Monterey's 2022 Porsche Classic Restoration Challenge project car (1979 Porsche Targa 911 SC)
A key component of the competition is documenting the unparalleled technical excellence of the Porsche Certified Technicians. Through the team effort, Porsche Monterey was honored by Porsche Classic during Werks Reunion 2022.
HIGH HOPES comedy
Cecily Gambrell, Screenplay*, Producer, Cast
*Page One Rewrite
ABOUT: A stoner comedy about a group of Hollywood wannabes that devise the ultimate plan to make it big.
DISTRIBUTORS: LIONSGATE (LGF), Maple Pictures, E-1 (E-One)
PRODUCTION NOTES: Despite its soporific subject matter HIGH HOPES is an actual achievement in independent filmmaking. This feature length comedy was entirely rewritten, cast, scheduled and shot within one month's time, with a strict budget. Released in 2009 it has quietly evolved into an off the beaten path cult comedy favorite.
CHAMPION. documentary
Cecily Gambrell, Writer, Producer, Interviewer, Packaging and One Sheet Designer
ABOUT: Award winning documentary profiling the life of ex-convict turned movie star, role model and father, Danny Trejo.
PRODUCTION NOTES: Imagen Award nominee, CHAMPION. has not not only been in increasing circulation since its initial 2005 release, it has more importantly become an educational tool that has helped alter the lives of at risk youth, and provide hope through Danny'sharrowing and compelling story.
SELECT HONORS: Bronze Telly Award Winner, Imagen Award Nominee, Phoenix Film Festival Best Documentary, Hollywood Film Festival Centerpiece Film
ETRE VENTURE CAPITAL // Promo
Producer, Director
Competitive promotional piece created for presentation to the US Department of Energy
LOVE ACTUALLY // Comedy
Rewrite/Co-Writer with lead
PRODUCER/LEAD: Sakis Rouvas (Greek super star)
YO SOY // Documentary
Writer, Producer
CAST (alpha): Maria Conchita Alonso, Marc Anthony*, Hector Elizondo, the late Ricardo Montalban*, Esai Morales, Adam Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, Rosie Perez, Wilmer Valderrama *Cast, footage not complete
Threat Matrix // Episodic
Story Editor (uncredited)
Season One, Episode One (PILOT)
ABC TELEVISION
Back To Maybe // Music Video
Writer, Producer, Co-Director
FEATURING: Lacey Chabert
Odd Birds/Hello My Name Is: Sketch Comedy // Pilot
Creator, Writer, Producer, Cast
VICTOR & EDDIE // Short Film
Writer, Producer, Cast
CAST: Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under), Shawn Michael Howard
NOTE(S): Official Selection HBO UrbanWorld Film Festival; Developed into feature length screenplay
DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE // Short Film
Writer, Producer, Cast
CAST: Malik Yoba (Bear, COPLAND, Arrested Development)
NOTE(S): Winner Five (5) Best Short Film Awards, and multiple Audience Awards; Developed into feature length screenplay