Independent Writers' Caucus
Tonia Kempler
Tonia Kempler is a multi-hyphenate, genre-agnostic filmmaker who lives in New York.
Her focus is on projects with IP/multi-revenue stream potential. She specializes in world-building and character development.
She develops comics, podcasts, unscripted & scripted TV, and features.
She is currently in development with Radar Pictures on a horror feature .
Her approach to storytelling and understanding audience engagement is fortified by a career in the Music Industry, including concert production and managing Grammy-Award-Winning producers, engineers, and songwriters. “No Scrubs” for TLC and “Survivor” for Destiny’s Child are among over 100 Billboard Chart Topping songs created by her previous clients.
Tonia is a serial entrepreneur. She is the founder of Bellem Entertainment, Entangled Exposure Entertainment, The 9 Armadillos (Writer's Room), and The Old Orchard Film Festival.
Tonia is a connector by nature. She is a member of The Vine Impact Global, Orchestrated Connecting, and The Renaissance Weekend. Over the course of her career, she has amassed an expansive network in both entertainment and finance.
In 2024, Tonia began to altruistically connect impact-driven producers with financiers. She is actively helping A-List projects (only).
Honors & Awards
The Academy Nicholl Fellowship - Top 10% - THE OUTPOST - 2021
Emerging Screenwriters - Horror/Thriller Genre Winner, - THE OUTPOST - 2022
Oregon Short Film Festival - Best Drama - NOT YOUR FAMILY - 2022
non-WGA
Female
THE OUTPOST
LGBTQ Coming-of-Age Thriller - STAND BY ME meets SUPER DARK TIMES
Life quickly turns into chaos as two teen boys, struggling with their sexual identities, attempt to cover up an accidental murder, leading one to unravel a disturbing truth about the other.
THE LEATHERFACE LADY
Horror Feature - CREEP and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT with a touch of PSYCHO.
A young woman and her friends encounter the fabled Leatherface Lady, believed to slay hikers on the Appalachian Trail, only to discover the killer may, in fact, be the local urban legend’s grandson.
GURCAN
Action Feature inspired by true events - THE MARKSMAN and MAN ON FIRE meets the world of THE BRIDGE
A federal agent pushed beyond his limits is forced to awaken his military past when his son gets kidnapped by a human trafficking organization within the government.
Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Dark, International
Female
repped