Biography

Tonia Kempler lives in New York, though her roots run deep in a rural south still steeped in the occult traditions of the Gullah Geechee and the animism of the Cherokees. Surrounded and empowered by the lore and practices of these supernatural cultures, Tonia leans toward macabre worlds with isolated, damaged, and yet capable and empathic female leads. This personal connection drives her concentration on Supernatural Horror/Thrillers, and dark comedies, including features, pilots, shorts, web series, and podcasts.

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.

Recent accomplishments include a No. 1 best-selling comic, multi-award winning short films, placement in Page Awards, The Austin Film Festival, and The ScreenCraft Fellowship among others. Tonia is an inspired Top Tier Roadmap Writer and an active 51/50 international workshop member with the Academy of Film Writing. In addition, Tonia is an industry script reader for the Austin Film Festival, Cinestory, and others.
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Tonia Kempler is a multi-hyphenate, genre-agnostic Producer/Director/Screenwriter 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 brings dark subject matter, typically found in documentaries, to the scripted space, ensuring the impact-driven messages engage a larger audience.

She develops comics, podcasts, and unscripted & scripted TV. Her features include horror, psychological thrillers, rom-coms, action, sci-fi, and dark comedies. Her accomplishments include over 200 awards, including a Top 10% Academy Nicholl's script.

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. 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).
- IMDb mini biography by: Tonia Kempler