Gabrielle started her filmmaking career at the age of 40. She has often shared the quote "It's never too late to become what you might have been.".
Gabrielle has lived in San Fransisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, and Cape Cod.
Gabrielle lived in Mexico City for 6 months in 2006. While there she taught English to children and adults, and ran an American-style hamburger restaurant.
Gabrielle has worked with her daughter, Juliette Tittel, on almost all of her productions, and always tries to find ways to involve her kids in the filmmaking process.
Gabrielle was a latchkey kid that had a lot of time to binge on TV growing up. She attributes this and her love of going to the movies to her passion for filmmaking.
Gabrielle was the singer of the cult acid-jazz band Eyes Like Mars in Seattle in the 1990's. She co-wrote the lyrics and melodies with pianist Geoffrey Alan Rhodes.
Gabrielle has a Bachelors degree in liberal arts, not film. Her honors thesis project "Get Up Eight" launched her filmmaking career. She has said that she made that film in protestation of writing another paper.
Gabrielle is a published author who wrote a children's book about body-positivity called Thank You, Body.