Gabriela Bacher
Producer, CEO of Film House Germany & Managing Director of Summerstorm Entertainment.
Based out of Berlin and Los Angeles, producer Gabriela Bacher runs Film House Germany, parent company to Egoli Tossell Film and Summerstorm Entertainment. She also manages Film House Germany's partnership with Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road Pictures and produces Summerstorm's slate of film and television projects. With the aim to further expand Film House Germany's US relationships, Gabriela forged a partnership with Vandal Entertainment's Navid McIlhargey to develop and produce elevated, character driven action.
Gabriela previously headed the German activities of Fox International Productions, where she produced Matthias Schweighöfer's romantic comedy hit "What a Man", following several years of consulting with Twentieth Century Fox on local feature acquisition on such titles as Marco Kreuzpaintner's "Trade" starring Kevin Kline, his adaptation of YA fantasy novel "Krabat" and Frieder Wittich's student comedy "13 Semester". As CEO of Vivendi's Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures, she played a significant part in the legendary studio's restructuring and modernization. Previously she had founded her own Los Angeles based production company, Primary Pictures, drawing on her experiences as the head of physical production at Constantin Film and early years in the film industry establishing the LA offices of the Kirch Group. The Film House Germany slate includes Ron Howard's "Rush", Jon S. Baird's "Filth", the Simon Pegg-starrer "Hector and the Search for Happiness", Bernard Rose's "Frankenstein" and "The Devil's Violinist", and "Big Game" with Samuel L. Jackson and Jim Broadbent.