Biography – Florida filmmaker & videographer
Dawn Dubriel is the preferred videographer in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, FL. Her clients recognize her as “the alchemist” of video production; she purely extracts the golden nuggets from your story and weaves them into a video tapestry that truly communicates.
At ten years old, her parents gave her a video camera and Dawn has been making films ever since. Even as a youth, she and her neighborhood friends would collaborate to create many narratives of various genre. As Dawn matured, her passion for filmmaking intensified and she pursued her endeavors by graduating from Florida Atlantic University in Communications/Film, then moved to California to attend The Los Angeles Film School’s one year immersion program in Directing/Editing. There, she learned filmmaking from top industry professionals. She is personal buddies with the highest echelon of teachers, professional producers, directors, business owners, writers, Hollywood players, Movers & Shakers, and industry pros. In Hollywood, she was immersed with like-minds, struggles, hard work, Murphy’s Law, and all of the creative inspiration and input that comes with making films.
Because she maximized every opportunity each day brought, she worked on many independent film sets in various capacities, and was able to compile her mental rolodex that she put to great use to produce two of her own short films. Her first film, The Chainletter was shot in the soundstage of LA Film School where Dawn received assistance from the cream of the crop students of her class to shoot on 16mm with a dolly, personal Directing ideas from Salvadore Carrasco, mentoring by Producers Gabrielle Kelly, Ariel Levy, Joe Byron, and Jeff Young, plus story classes with Linda Cowgill. Her Dad also helped by constructing the set of a kitchen in a makeshift NYC style 70′s apt. Her second film in L.A., Revenge of the B-Girl$ was shot on Panavision’s S16mm Elise camera on Kodak Vision1 film, scored by the same people that write jingles for McDonald’s, SAG cast, Hollywood locations, Fotokem telecine, Original music from L.A.’s & NYC finest artists, Fabiolus catering, Big Screen Cuisine, Albono’s pizza on Melrose… the works.
She is on IMBd as 2nd A.D. (view). When she returned to sunny, south Florida, she worked in Television at Platinum Broadcasting Company as a Production Coordinator. There she organized hundreds of Broadcast TV Productions, nationally and globally. After learning the television business at Platinum, she decided to pursue her passion of Producing, Directing, Shooting, and Editing. This is when she stepped from behind her desk to behind a camera once again and has currently shot more than 150 local video-ads for AT&T Yellow Pages websites, CitySearch, Yelp, Enterprise Development Corporation in South Florida, and various Medical and Training videos for professional executives and physicians. She is also a Videographer at the elite Fort Lauderdale based Sixth Star Entertainment where she enjoys her work immensely under the guidance of top-knotch producers: Meredith Lasher and Doug Jones.
She also worka as Metromix Miami’s Ambassador Photographer, and Producer for over three years. Her video clips were aired on The CW South Florida WSFL, her photos hosted on Tribune’s Metromix.com, and her 2page photo spreads were printed in weekly issues of City Link magazine. As her colleagues at the Sun Sentinel can attest, Dawn has never missed a deadline.
She has also Directed many short films, won four Film Festivals, produces Corporate Commercials, Video-Journalism, Documentaries, Live-Performances, and all sorts of special events. She was a Featured Filmmaker on Spymac.com, written up in the first issue of WeMerge Magazine, nominated for The New Times Mastermind award 2009 and again in 2010, and her event: the Auteur Explosion @ Cinema Paradiso won Best Art/Film/Music event in City Link Magazine 2009.
With a huge lust for travel, Dawn took advantage of Florida Atlantic University’s Study Abroad Program in her last semester before graduating college with her B.A., and lived in Firenze, Italia for three months to study Italian Art History, Language, and the English Romantic poets: Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Robert Browning. She also visited England, Spain, Paris, Costa Rica, and has traveled all over the U.S. FAU’s Italian Department still uses her Video-Travelogues to promote to potential students for their summer study in Tuscany program.
She is currently in Graduate school, working on various productions in different stages of development including her latest opus, a documentary dedicated to the Medici family in Renaissance Florence, Italy.
See her Video Resume here: