An award winning independent filmmaker, Richard Gabai is a veteran with over a dozen movies to his credit.

His first film “Assault of the Party Nerds” was produced for $40K and went on to gross $500K worldwide. It has since become a cult favorite airing on the USA Network, TBS, and various stations around the world. Gabai quickly followed up with Leslie Mann’s feature debut, “Virgin High” for MGM, a catalogue title which is currently being adapted into a musical stage play. A subsequent feature, a personal favorite of Quentin Tarantino, the neurotic thriller “Vice Girls,” has also been a staple on cable TV.

More recently Gabai has focused on family films. His first entry into the genre, “The Bike Squad,” was shot in 12 days for $200K and won him the Genesis Award for Best TV Movie after premiering on Showtime. Feature honors that year went to “Finding Nemo.” His next feature, Fox’s “Moto-X-Kids” with Josh Hutcherson was trailed closely by Charles Durning, Leslie Ann Warren, Janine Turner, and David Keith starrer “Miracle Dogs Too” (currently on Starz and Showtime). NewLine Cinema release “Popstar” followed soon after. All three of these films were shot on 15 day schedules with budgets under $1M.

This year Gabai completed the first independent live action digital 3D feature “Call of the Wild 3D” starring Christopher Lloyd, Aimee Teegarden, Veronica Cartwright, and Wes Studi. (www.callofthewildmovie.com)

After premiering at 3DX in Singapore alongside Disney’s “Bolt,” and breaking attendance records at the Santa Barbara Film Festival where the US premiere was held, Vivendi/Universal released the movie theatrically in the US while Voltage Pictures has secured theatrical releases in most of the major foreign territories.

Richard, a USC graduate, lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Richard Gabai
323.497.1411
gabai@mac.com