TELEVISION AND FEATURE FILM

Original, wholly owned television and feature film projects that span a range of genre.

"We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make a statement. But to make money it is often important to make history, to make art, or to make some significant statement...In order to make money, we must always make entertaining movies, and if we make entertaining movies, at times we will reliably make history, art, a statement or all three. We may even win awards...if every film has an original and imaginative concept, then we can be confident something will break through." - Michael Eisner

A HAPPY DEATH (Previously Packaged) Feature comedy

OriginalScreenplay by Cecily Gambrell

GENRE(S): Drama, Action, Urban

COMP: EXCESS BAGGAGE

PREVIOUS PACKAGE: Adam Rodriguez (CSI: Miami), Ana de la Reguera (NACHO LIBRE), the late Steven Bauer (SCARFACE), Chevy Chase, Jay Mohr, Snoop Dogg (cast, and composer), Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl (BIG, THE FISHER KING)

TAGLINE: You can’t choose your family but you can tell them how much they suck.TM

LOGLINE: Jessica and her Latino live-in boyfriend find their relationship comically tested through a day of over bearing family following the funeral of Will's Aunt Rosa. From Will's materialistic sister, to his thug uncle, to Jessica's esoteric front yard Tai Chi practicing father to their nunchuck bearing foul mouther neighbor -- one dead aunt could lead to one DOA relationship if WIll and Jessica can't use team work to make the dream work. But all bets may be off when Will's book of wrongs is discovered...

DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE

Short film developed into feature screenplay

Original Screenplay by Cecily Gambrell

GENRE(S): Drama THEME: Racism

COMP:

LOGLINE: Reporter Chris Jones takes a step down to take a step forward, leaving his position at a large Chicago newspaper to head a small paper in the south. His skills coupled with his great taste for injustice is that which leads him to discover, and uncover the decades old systematic murdering of local blacks.

SHORT FILM DETAILS

Cecily Gambrell, Screenplay, Producer, Cast

CAST: Malik Yoba, Cecily Gambrell

HONORS (2002): Phoenix FF Best Short Film , (818)/Valley FF, Thunderbird FF Best Short Film Professional Short Film , Kansas City Filmmaker's JubileeHonorable Mention , Temecula FF Audience Award, Bronx Independent FF Best Short Film, Oakland Int'l FF Honorable Mention
NOTEWORTHY: Requested special screening with 100 Black Men, USC Chapter; Qualified/submitted for OSCAR nomination consideration

VICTOR & EDDIE Short film developed into feature screenplay

Original Screenplay by Cecily Gambrell

GENRE(S): Drama, Action, Urban

COMP: EXCESS BAGGAGE

LOGLINE: Childhood friends, nearing the wrong side of thirty, are broke, jobless and rocking an unfavorable LA zip code. But come one fine, piercingly cold winter morning Victor finds himself pushed over the edge. Tired of his station in life and certain he’s being kept down by the man, he devises a sloppy plan to even the score. His plan: kidnap Elizabeth Hollinghurst, a reclusive Bel Air socialite whose father is worth more than God, which makes her more valuable than gold...but every goes to east LA in hand basket when Elizabeth gets shot.

SHORT FILM DETAILS:

Cecily Gambrell, Screenplay, Producer, Cast

CAST: Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under), Shawn Michael Howard, Cecily Gamnbrell

Official Selection HBO Urban World Film Festival