GINGER GENTILE
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GINGER GENTILE
FILMMAKER. CHANGE MAKER.
PUBLIC SPEAKER.
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ABOUT
Ginger Gentile is an activist documentary filmmaker dedicated to addressing ignored issues and shedding light on solutions. With her documentary ERASING FAMILY, which premiered at Lincoln Center in 2019, she exposed the trauma children suffer when a loving parent is erased by the divorce courts, a problem that affects over 22 million families in the US alone. Ginger crowdfunded over $430,000 for the film.
For her work in reuniting families, Gentile was named an Architect of Change by Maria Shriver and has spoken at SXSW 2019 and appeared on numerous podcasts and tv shows, including Red Table Talk. In her short time serving as the Executive Director of the National Parents Organization she added six new state affiliates and garnered national press attention for the Shared Parenting Report Card.
THE LATEST
Ginger Gentile finished directing her fourth feature documentary. Releasing in 2023, exposing the wealth hoarding of the Ivy League: Exclusion U.
She travels frequently as a public speaker and is an in-demand consultant for parents reversing alienation, start-ups and NGOS raising money and film makers. She is a contributor for Forbes Women.
You can stream her documentary Erasing Family on all major platforms.
BACKGROUND
After graduating Columbia University, Ginger lived in Argentina for 13 years where she ran San Telmo Productions, whose clients include Nat Geo, A&E, Warner Bros, and Al Gore’s Climate Challenge. Her feature directing credits include ERASING DAD (Borrando a Papá, 2014) and GOALS FOR GIRLS (Mujeres con Pelotas, 2014) which follows slum girls fighting to play a sport off limits to women in Argentina: soccer. Her narrative short “The Hooker and the Transvestite” won 1st prize in the Filmaka “Hard Times” contest judged by Werner Herzog, Zak Penn and Paul Schrader.
Returning to the US in 2015, Ginger directed the PSA “Erased Mom” with Bravo Personality Tamra Judge and was featured as a storyline on her TV show. Her Erasing Family was a storyline on Red Table Talk’s Episode on Parental Alienation which garnered more than 6 million views in a week.
She is a member of Film Fatales, Alliance for Women Directors, Women in Film (which chose her to be part of the Director Mentorship Program) and Directores Argentinos Cinematográficos. Find her on IMDB.