Jill Gambaro Reflection Media 12325 Moorpark Street, #201 Studio City, CA 91604 Phone: 818/679-6742 Email: jgambaro@reflectionmedia.com

Member: Media Group Professional Service: Writer/Producer

BUSINESS BIO: Jill Gambaro is an award-winning writer/producer and entrepreneur. In 1993, Jill launched film production company CinemAntics Productions, later adding an alternative media division and incorporating as Reflection Media in 2006. As a contract producer, Jill is noted for handling strong creative challenges such as a period piece on a microbudget, first time directors and actor/directors. Her films have included A-list talent, garnered awards on the festival circuit, gotten distribution and reached their investors objectives. Most recently, Jill produced the feature length documentary Imagine a School ... Summerhill by award-winning director William Tyler Smith (The Third Mind) which is being distributed internationally by documentary powerhouse DER. The film has been nominated as Best Independent Feature through Kids First! and has also spawned a narrative feature, now in pre-production, and a documentary sequel currently in production. In post-production is the feature Letting Go by award-winning director Jake Torem, starring Todd Stashwick, Bokeem Woodbine, Christopher Knight, Eliza Roberts, Peter Scolari, Sam Golzari, Shirly Brener and legendary music producer David Foster, in his debut performance. Coming up through guerilla productions as well as in studio development, Jill is a prime example of a new kind of independent producer – filmmaker as well as dealmaker. She has the rare background of having worked in multiple arenas within the entertainment industry including for a foreign sales company, with a prominent entertainment attorney and as an entertainment journalist covering the Cannes and AFM markets for The Business of Film magazine. Before starting her own company, Jill spent seven years in film development, working with The Badham/Cohen Group, Miller/Boyett Motion Pictures, producer Gregg Fienberg (The Crow, Deadwood), producer Ken Aguado (The Salton Sea), and TriMark Pictures. As a writer, Jill has received a Nissan FOCUS award for her screenplay Sticking Together and the Best Historical Screenplay award from WorldFest Houston for her period musical Black and White. Her feature drama screenplay Shadows In The Dust was an official selection of the Independent Feature Film Market, a semi-finalist for the Chesterfield Film Writer's Project, and launched the NYU Staged Reading Series, which was directed by Vincent Schiavelli. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration in Dramatic Writing, Jill began her production career producing short films with first time directors as calling cards into the film and TV industry. Films she has produced have been honored with awards, such as Le Corset, winner of Best Independent Short Subject, WorldFest Houston. The short film Nick Fit Extreme excited the executives of Castle Rock Entertainment to the degree that they started a whole festival (Lo-Con Festival of Short Films) just so the film and others like it could reach an audience. Jill is currently packaging two feature films, combining superior storytelling skills with next generation marketing, to create multiple revenue streams, platform released to foster repeat business. Legendary international talent is already attached to both projects. PERSONAL BIO: Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Jill is also a life-long Red Wings fan, and currently heads a social group for hockey fans in Los Angeles. While suffering from a disabling upper body injury, she sat on the Board of Directors for a non-profit group, speaking on television, radio and at the Sacramento Capital on behalf of chronic pain patients. She danced as a hobby for 10 years including ballet, tap, jazz, modern, ballroom and hip hop styles. Other noted accomplishments include catching a 36 pound halibut, publishing travel photographs and baking a mean sweet potato pecan pie