Who am I?

One January in the late 1980s, while most Americans were dealing with snowstorms and heating bills, my mom and dad were basking in the hot summer sun of Rio de Janeiro with their newborn, me. Every year since then I have commonly celebrated my birthday with a foot of snow, chilling winds, and my only consolation being that not all of my birthdays have been as cold. For whatever reason, my parents chose to raise their children where my father is from (Cleveland, OH) and not where my mother is from (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). I used to think that that was the strangest decision they made, but then I realized they named me Gabrielle Gabriel and well…

Twenty-one years later and here I am living in Boston with temperatures much more similar to Cleveland than Rio, but as it turns out I’m a sucker for fall foliage. Everybody calls me Gabby, and that’s appropriate because I am a gabber. I like to write, make films and take pictures that have some kind of social commentary on this strange little world around us. Although I haven’t been everywhere, and haven’t earned a degree just yet (see me in 2011), I have learned that this world is easily connectible through art that speaks to the heart.

How did I Get into Film?

It was a cold spring day in March when I embarked on the adventure that would ultimately inspire my career in film. I was still was buzzing from the excitement of taking a spontaneous trip to Puerto Rico for Spring Break. My first day back from vacation, I was cutting through the student center and a man handed me a brochure which I tucked into my back pocket. As I was sitting in class I was searching for a pen and had found the brochure the man had handed to me earlier. It was a piece of paper encouraging students to apply for the National Campus Movie Festival. Because I had been on this spontaneous buzz, I decided to go ahead and sign up for it after class. Up to that point I had never made my own film, and never touched an Apple computer. The completion of my short for the Campus Movie Festival was the most rewarding experience I ever personally was involved in. After I was finished I knew that this was what I wanted to do. Since then I have made it my quest to learn as much as I can about the Film Industry.