Jackie Zabel

CEO at Stellar Productions
Filmmaker

Los Angeles, California

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About Jackie

Jackie Zabel is an award-winning WGA screenwriter who also produces both her and her husband’s work under the banner of Stellar Productions, a company the two formed and own jointly.
Recently, Stellar is producing a film based on the book rights to a New York Times bestseller, “The Last Battle,” a project they developed and sold to Endurance Media. Bryce Zabel wrote the script adapted from the book. This film is a large budget World War II movie based on a never before told true story. It was highly sought after by some of the biggest producers in Hollywood. Jackie serves as Producer.
Stellar has also formed a partnership with Alta Global Entertainment, on another underlying book property, “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.”
Jackie is a nationally published author, and scripted an international mini-series that won the Writer’s Guild Award for “Best Longform Original.” “Pandemic,” a Hallmark Channel mini-series co-written with her husband Bryce, aired as a “special event” picture. She also co-wrote, “Chasing a Dream,” about a high school student who wants to break the four-minute mile. She has also completed a script for the indie comedy,“Let’s Do It,” about the making of the first student film ever that is in pre-production, that received a high score on ’s metric.
Her book, “The Hollywood Cookbook: Cooking for Causes,” was released in national chains. The book features themed meals from twenty different celebrities who each name their favorite charities for a share of the proceeds. It won Gourmand Awards for “Best in the United States,” “Best in the World” and “Best of the Best of the Last 12 years,” in the category of fundraising cookbooks.
Jackie also was instrumental in the University of Oregon’s successful “Lights, Camera, Oregon!” a kick-off event for a 600 million dollar capital campaign where she served as a producer and also co-wrote the script for the evening’s festivities. Many of the evening’s special touches were the result of her observations of event planning from attending multiple awards shows with her husband, including the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, etc.
In 2001, Jackie shared story credit on the Disney summer release, “Atlantis: The Lost Empire,” a movie that made more than 80
million dollars worldwide. She’s also written television episodes, Movie of the Week, and optioned both television and feature material to Nickelodeon, Warner Brothers, and Universal.
Jackie’s career started in local news, writing and producing for KCBS- TV. She graduated with a Masters' degree in Broadcast Journalism from USC, and has two undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Psychology from the University of Texas, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

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