biography

MITCHEL R. DUMLAO
Mitchel Dumlao currently works at Chatrone with Carina Schulze and Aaron Berger, formally of Quattro media. Chatrone is a production/management company that develops and produces comic books, animation, television, and feature film. Mitchel is also took part in the 2008 Power of Diversity Producing Workshop for the Producers Guild of America (PGA), developing a 1 hour TV drama with the help of industry elite and guild members.

During the past year, Mitchel has produced an award winning experimental short film, DJ:LA, with directer Jerry Chan. He also received an associate producer credit on the horror/mockumentary film THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES by the Dowdle Brothers, which will be released through MGM late 2008. Mitchel also produced a short film omnibus with 4 filmmakers called EAT, which premiered at the 2008 VC Film Festival.

Mitchel previously worked as a development executive for Zoom Entertainment alongside producer and former Miramax executive, Michael Zoumas. In this capacity, Mitchel analyzed screenplays, searched for new filmmakers, developed projects with directors and writers while facilitating with the writing process, researched film ideas and social trends, maintained industry contacts, and wrote treatments and outlines for original concepts. Mitchel also assisted John Frank Rosenblum and Cindi Rice for Epic Level Entertainment as a production coordinator on various projects, such as XOMBIE and DORKNESS RISING.

Mitchel began his professional career at Miramax in the fall of 2005, where he worked under the desks of Michael Zoumas and Richard Saperstein. He also interned part-time for an independent publicist named Wendy Weisberg, and produced his own 30-minute show on the radio each week for American Radio Network. In January 2006, Mitchel moved on to being an assistant for Michael Zoumas, who started his own production company called Zoom Entertainment and has a first-look producing deal with Rogue Pictures and Focus Features.

Mitchel graduated from University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2005 with a BA in Film Studies. In 2004, Mitchel studied abroad in Adelaide, Australia and studied under their Screen (Film) Studies department. His short documentary, THE ART IGNORED, was nominated for awards at two film festivals around Australia. In 2005, Mitchel produced, edited, wrote, and directed the film SOUNDTRACK for the Reel Loud Film Festival at UCSB, innovating the medium by synchronizing the images on screen with live sound from DJ's on stage.

Mitchel plans to take his experience in development and eventually move into producing and directing his own films.

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