BIO

Gabrielle Mullem is a documentary-maker and creative consultant, specializing in independent film, audio and multi-media production. She is the Director/Producer of the nationally broadcast PBS documentary "The Music's Gonna Get You Through" (produced in partnership with American Public Television/iTVS) and most recently served as a Story & Production Consultant on the the feature films, "A Revolution in Four Seasons" (Opening Night Selection Margaret Mead Film Festival, Selection Hot Docs) and "We Are Not Princesses," (Selection Doc NYC). We Are Not Princesses is partnered with the United Nations Refugee Agency to screen for international refugee populations and completed a successful international festival run, most recently winning the Grand Prix at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art in Montreal in March of 2020.

Gabby got her start in film in 1995 learning feature-film production under the tutelage of former Amazon Pictures production head Ted Hope and his team at his original production company with James Shamus, Good Machine (prodco for Ang Lee, Todd Haynes, Nicole Holofcener). She went on to collaborate with Daily Show/Conan O'Brien staff writer Rob Kutner to produce the short film, Pie Chi, a horror-comedy inspired by her time working odd jobs in New York City as a night baker and public school martial arts instructor. Pie Chi debuted at the HBO Urban World Festival and later on television on Showtime.

Awards for her work include: Independent Television Service LINCS Partner, The Bay Area Video Coalition's MediaMaker Award, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Community Partnership Grant and Chicken & Egg Pictures "We Believe In You" Grant.  She is a recipient of the James Beard Foundation's Apicius Scholarship Award for her multi-media work with The New Orleans Times-Picayune online's Food section and has been hosted as a guest artist at both The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art through the Working Film's Content +Intent Institute Fellowship and as a speaker at The Duke Center For Documentary Studies.

Current Projects

Multimedia: RAISED, an online storytelling exhibit with companion podcast, launching fully 2025, in partnership with digital platforms Bff.fm and Shorthand.

Community Arts/Photo: The Sandbox & the Roof, a Bay Area photography program created in partnership with East Bay pre-schools and their family communities to document culture around free play. Portfolio access available upon request.