Gabriela Tscherniak

US and Uk trained Award-winning Director & Showrunner Gabriela Tscherniak, was born in Riga, Latvia, and is fluent in five languages. She is of German-Jewish descent and derives from a family of distinguished musicians and artist such as the famed “Arkadij Rajkin.” (Eastern Europe's Charlie Chaplin, legendary Regime critic, Comedian and founder of the prestigious “Satirycon Theater Moscow”). She started as a director’s assistant in theater productions in Berlin, and moved on to be a photographer for bands and fashion labels. During her film studies at Central St. Martins, London and the Erasmus exchange at Pratt Institute New York, she completed several shorts that went into international festival circulation.

She successfully attended the AFI directing program, after which she completed her award winning youth drama BERLIN NIGHTS. Gabriela then signed to direct the Psycho Thriller SOUND HUNTER with Kings Road Ent. LA.

She was hired to creative produce and direct the TV series TUNGUS METEORITE for Amedia After that she worked on a couple of episodes of the Russian TV Series Adaptation “Married with Children” (Sony).

She was chosen Europewide as one of the eight European director finalist that were further invited to prepare and pitch a 54 min fiction documentary for ESA (European Space Agency) and has won the competition and directed in addition several commercial spots for ESA.

Then she directed several Episodes of the Eastern European CSI adaptation "Track" (Sled) for the 1st TV channel. Further she directed several Episodes of the CSI adaptation for the 1st TV channel. And in 2014/15 she directed 20 episodes of the spin off the forensic crime series "Akademia" for DT production. In 2015/16 she was invited to direct a Dramedy Pilot for Goodstory Media and went into development for the "Love Contract" with the Producer Yu-Fai Suen (managing director of Pinewood Pictures) and Guy Avshalom (founder of Lionsgate UK, Fishing in Yemen, Expendables, Olympus has Fallen, London is Burning...
Also in 2017 she signed a contract with the prestigious producer Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, American Graffiti) in order to direct the US$ 20 million feature project the "Nightwitches" that Gary produced in collaboration with John D. Schofield ("Enemy At The Gates" with Judd Law, "Jerry Maguire" with Tom Cruise, "As Good As It Get's" with Jack Nickolson & Helen Hunt. 2018 Gabriela was invited by Wow and Bily Productions to direct one of the Berlin I Love You segments.
In 2022 she directed the TV pilot “Being Angie” with Hayden Panettiere the star of Nashville and Heroes.