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Gabriela Tscherniak

Gabriela Tscherniak is an award winning German-Israeli Filmmaker. She was born in Riga (Latvia) of German-Jewish descent and is part of a family of well known musicians and artist including “Arkadij Raikin.”

Career

Tscherniak earned distinction as a director in Europe and North America during her studies at Central St. Martins in London and Pratt Institute New York, where she completed several short films that were accepted into international festival competition, including The North by Northwest Film Festival and The Leeds International Film Festival. The Cannes and Venice Film Festivals soon followed after Tscherniak graduated from the Master’s program of the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles and completed her award-winning youth drama, Berlin Nights. Following the success of Berlin Night's, Tscherniak was hired as second unit director for the first world war Action Drama “Defenders of Riga.” After completion that very same year she was signed to direct the psycho-thriller “Soundhunter” by Kings Road entertainment and in 2007 invited to direct and be the creative producer of the Russian Lost spin off TV series Tungus Meteorite for A-media Moscow.

Known for her versatility and fluency in four languages, Tscherniak has also been active in directing TV shows for network television in Russia. In 2008 Tscherniak was hired by Sony Moscow to helm several episodes of the Russian adaptation of FOX TV's “Married with Children”. In addition in 2009 Gabriela was selected Europe wide with another eight European director’s to prepare a fiction-documentary pitch for the European Space Agency which she won. She was invited a second time and was selected to direct ESA’s commercial spots.

Tscherniak also directs music videos amongst which are her recent work for Universal Music Group "T'es Gentille“for the French Chanson artist Julien Esteval, for Russian artist Philipp Kirkorov, singer Kamaliya and more recently for Israeli singer Ester Rada and her song “Sorrie’s” as well as for Riff Cohen with the song 'Helas'.

2012 her project "Comrades“ won the German-Russian Co-Development Fund.

2016/17 she directing twenty Episodes of the Spin of Bones for DT productions with it's screening premier via CTC Media and National Media group channels Domashny. She was also hired to direct the pilot “Force Major” for CTC channel and the dramedy pilot “Crisis 30” for Good Story media and the TNT channel.

2017 Tscherniak was chosen by producer Gary Kurtz (Starwars, American Graffity) to direct the Historical war drama 'Nightwitches' based on the real life story of an all female fighter pilot unit that is slated for production in Autumn 2020.

2018 She is currently directing one of the segments of the franchise “Berlin I Love You” for Wow Media, Germany.

Tscherniak is represented in the United States by talent management firm Cavaleri & Associates and law offices of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. In Germany, she is represented by SKW Schwartz and in Russia by Talent Agency Stardust.