Francesca Gamba

Francesca Gamba is an actress, singer, filmmaker, and the founder of Intenso Films. She graduated from LaGuardia Arts School in New York (The Fame School) and also earned her Bachelor's in Arts Summa Cum Laude from Northwestern University, studying Film, Theatre, and Entrepreneurship with a focus on acting and directing for the screen. She is best known for acting in Midnight Momo, a feature film shot on an iPhone for $4000 that got into the Tibet Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, and the Dharamshala International Film Festival. She is also known for writing, directing, and starring in Manic Memoirs (Big Apple Film Festival, award for best actress and film; got into 5 fests) and Sisters (got into Crypticon Horror Fest, won best horror at Santa Barbara), and for writing and directing Mi Hija (NY International Shorts, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Indie Short), starring Gemmy Quelliz (Miss Universe Latina Finalist) and Kaliani Chanelle (LaGuardia Drama). Furthermore, she was a Pritzker Pucker Fellow, for the promotion of mental health through cinema. As a theatre actress, she has starred alongside Mercedes Ruehl (Academy Award, Tony, and Golden Globe winner) in a showcase of the musical Uphill Walkers and has performed in cabarets around NYC. She was also in Dance Nation as Connie as the only undergraduate chosen to perform alongside Northwestern's MFA Theatre actors, and in the Waa-Mu Show, a Northwestern tradition with alumni such as Brian d'Arcy James and Heather Headley.