Gabrielle Demeestere

Born and raised in Paris, Gabrielle wrote and directed the feature film Yosemite, starring James Franco and Henry Hopper, which Variety called “an impressive debut” and was released theatrically and on Netflix in 2016. She is currently in pre-production on her second feature film Terra, which participated in the Torino Film Lab and Gotham Week Project Market in 2022. Prior to joining Emerson, Gabrielle taught Directing in the graduate film program at Columbia University and Screenwriting in the MFA in Playwriting program at Rutgers University, at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Tufts University and Syracuse University.