June 2015
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About Gina
With a passion for the expatriate journey, Gina Dellios is a new screenwriter creating dramas and comedies with a multicultural perspective. So far she has written six scripts: Flambé (short film and series), Poseurs (series), The Maître d', Comedies and Tragedies, Expats, and Suitcase (series and film). She is working on three others: Adventures of a Modern-Day Business Girl, Her Name is Emilia, and Hollywood. She is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish, and has a good level of Greek.
The youngest and first American from her Italian-Uruguayan household, she now lives in the south of France with her own family working in her communications consultancy. Before this, she lived and worked in London for two years in high tech PR and learned so much about a culture that she thought would be like that of the U.S., but found to be quite different.
Her parents owned a locally famous flambé restaurant in California for 40 years. The most loyal patron, she learned a lot about human behavior by closely observing their clients since she was a small child, as well as through traveling a lot from the age of one.
Beginning his career as a bell boy at 11 years old in Italy during the second world war, Gina's father has been her idol and inspiration. She loves listening to his stories about growing up in Northern Italy during difficult times, and then pulling himself up to pursue his dreams in Lausanne, Copa Cabana, Punta del Este and ultimately America. The daughter of Spanish immigrants, Gina's mother who was a figure skater for many years in Uruguay, told her stories of growing up poor and desperately wanting to be a star. She would save her little salary to hire a photographer to take photos of her on a Montevideo beach in the early 1940s. Gina's family and their stories have ignited her passion for the expatriate journey.
Unique traits: I am fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish, and have a respectable level of Greek. My projects have a multicultural perspective and a uniquely subtle sense of humor.
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Valley, Vallée© A television series by Gina Dellios Comedy A TV series based on expat families living in the heart of the Mediterranean, whose children don’t appreciate what they have and think the homelands of their parents are much more exotic (strip malls, slurpies and all).
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Flambé©, A Short Film written, directed and produced by Gina Dellios Budget: $0 - $100K | Independent Set in a famous flambé restaurant in the 70s, the maître d's daughter and her friend innocently spy on and pretend to act like questionable patrons involved in an undercover crime -- that is, until they become accomplices.
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The Maître d'©, A Script by Gina Dellios Drama ⋄ Comedy A comedic drama set in the 1970s in a California city, young Giuliana is born into the hottest restaurant in town, where the ambiance is so electric and contagious that customers want to be part of it. Victims of their own success, Giuliana and her family desperately try to claim what is theirs, while hoping no one notices the struggle of their lives.
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The Strangers in the Paradise©, A Script by Gina Dellios Comedy A dramatic comedy about a down-to-earth, California family who move to the ideal place, known as 'The Paradise.' There, expatriates from all different corners of the world go quite far in their quest to reach what they deem to be perfection - but at what cost?
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Comedies and Tragedies©, A Script by Gina Dellios Comedy Georgios just wants his Greek family to stay Greek despite having moved to Sweden: You marry, have beautiful well-behaved children, eat gorgeous food, dance sirtaki, and make your elders proud. He can't wait for an important gathering in his patria to show everyone just how well his family has retained its roots, or has it?
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Her Name is Emilia©, A Script by Gina Dellios Comedy In a small Argentina town, every Soledad in the family ends up with a disastrous fate. The third Soledad flees to make her own successful path in a new land, facing many comedic and disheartening challenges along the way.
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Adventures of a Modern-Day Business Girl©, A Script by Gina Dellios Comedy A young woman tries to make her way in the world, while desperately hanging on to her morals and sense of self. Arianna loves and hates being an international salesperson, but will she get herself out of this crazy circus, upon which she's grown financially dependent?
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Hollywood©, A Script by Gina Dellios Independent Two European actresses go to Hollywood to make it big, and there they meet an up-and-coming young producer with the same intentions. Their lives intertwine in coincidental ways until they uncover the biggest secret in the business, which ironically helps them realize their dreams.
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Suitcase©, A Script by Gina Dellios Drama Predictable Emma comes from an obscenely wealthy family, often summoned to her father's castle-like estate. When her father passes, her curious inheritance gives her the promise of a more full and beautiful life than she could have ever imagined, but does she have the courage to achieve it?
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Dominican
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