Gabriella Garcia-Pardo

Gabriella is a documentary cinematographer/producer/director drawn to stories of our relationship to land, place, and the non-human. She is currently based in Bogotá, Colombia.

A 2020 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and 2020 Impact Partners Producers Fellow, Gabriella has been supported by Catapult Films, ITVS, IFP/The Gotham, BAVC, Visions sud Est, and NOFS, among others. Her work as a cinematographer has screened at festivals including IDFA, SXSW, Tribeca, Full Frame, and Hot Docs. Her first feature as a producer, LA BONGA, with directors Sebastián Pinzón Silva and Canela Reyes premiered at True/False 2023 and won awards for best first-feature at Cinéma du Réel and Cinelatino Francia. She is currently directing her first feature film, FENCED, with producer Jonna McKone and is producing BACKSIDE with director Raúl Paz Pastrana and producer Patricia Alvarez Astacio.

Previously, Gabriella created short-form documentaries at National Geographic as a one-woman-band, filmed over 150 musicians at NPR, designed an intensive summer film program for high school students at Yale, and led horse treks through Chile. Gabriella is a graduate of SCAD and is the founder of the Washington, DC chapter of the Video Consortium, where she spent four years curating monthly events and facilitating mentorship for filmmakers and journalists.