Gabriela Cavanagh
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Director
Gabriela Cavanagh is a Peruvian, Brooklyn-based documentary director and producer. She is the director of Sustained Outrage, a short doc about a family-owned, Pulitzer Prize-winning local newspaper in West Virginia and its fight for survival. The film premiered at the 2019 New Orleans Film Festival. Previous films include Manuel, the love story of an 87-year old who sells aphrodisiac juice in Havana (2017 New Orleans Film Festival, 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the 2018 Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, 2018 Portland Film Festival), and portrait of artist Nebiur Arellano, Lienzos de Seda. From 2016-2018, Gabriela worked full-time as a Development Producer at The Documentary Group, working closely with filmmakers and clients to develop feature films, series, and branded content from conception to green light. Gabriela is also the co-producer of Nightgowns, an 8-part series about drag queen sensation Sasha Velour, for Quibi.