Dana Offenbach

Dana Offenbach is American film and television producer and director. She is the founder of CinemaStreet Pictures, LLC. Her credits include feature films, TV, shorts, television commercials, awards show segments, public service announcements, interstitial programming, documentaries and music videos.^[1][2]

Dana Offenbach
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	producer and director
Known for	founder of CinemaStreet Pictures

Offenbach has produced in India, Brazil, Ireland, South Africa and London.

Career

Offenbach co-produced the indie hit Hav Plenty which was sold at the Toronto Film Festival to Miramax, and premiered at Sundance in 1998.^[3]

In 1999, she produced her second independent feature titled Box Marley for writer/director Christopher Scott Cherot. Offenbach wrote, produced, and directed Love & Orgasms^[4] which won World Premiere Honors at the 2003 Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, and screened in several festivals both domestically and internationally.^[5]

In 2006, Offenbach spent 3 months in India producing The Memsahib, an 1850s period feature, released by Red Letter Pictures In India.^[6]

Following that she independently produced and distributed in a partnership with AMC Theatres, Qasim Basir’s Mooz-lum, starring Danny Glover, Evan Ross, Nia Long, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Dorian Missick. She secured independent theatrical distribution in Canada, the UK, Dubai, and Kuwait, as well as DVD, television and digital distribution.^[7][8]

CinemaStreet Pictures

In 2011, Offenbach opened her indie production company CinemaStreet Pictures, LLC in her hometown of New York City.^[9][10] Her recent credits include Julius Onah’s The Girl Is in Trouble^[11] which was executive produced by Spike Lee was released domestically on multi platforms (including theatrical) by E One Films on April 3, 2015 and Odin’s Eye Internationally.^[12][13]

In 2017, Offenbach wrote, produced and directed "My Sun Sets to Rise Again" which was shot on location in Mumbai, India in 2016.^[14] "My Sun Sets to Rise Again" wins the Honorable Mention in the 2nd Online Annual Shorts Festival in the Drama Category by New York Women in Film & Television and Go Indie TV.^[15] My Sun Sets To Rise Again has been distributed internationally by ShortsTV and GoIndie TV.^[16]

In 2019 Dana's production company launched a Women's Screenplay contest which is being managed by longtime New York Women in Film & Television Director Terry Lawler who retired from her post at Women in Film earlier in the year.^[17]

In July 2019 Dana;s short film Before It Was True was nominated in multiple categories in the Los Angeles International Film Festival's Indie Short Fest and was one of the winners of the 2019 Moondance Film Festival.^[18] The film was written by Brenda Kienan and stars Joan Juliet-Buck, Nicole Ansari-Cox and Lina Todd.^[19][20]

In 2023 Dana produced To Live and Die and Live. On January 20, 2023, the movie had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.^[21]

Membership

She is a member of the Producers Guild of America and New York Women in Film & Television.^[22]

Filmography

Producer

• Hav Plenty (1997) (co-producer)
• Box Marley (2000) (producer)
• The Life (2002) (executive producer)
• Love & Orgasms (2003) (writer, director, producer)
• Andre Royo’s Big Scene (2004) (producer)
• Wait (2005) (line producer)
• The Memsahib (2006) (producer)
• Karma, Confessions and Holi (2009) (co-producer)
• Running America (2009) (supervising producer)
• Mooz-lum (2010) (producer)
• USA in ICU (2010) (director, producer)
• The Girl Is in Trouble (2015) (producer)
• ABFF Awards a Celebration of Hollywood (2016) (TV Special) (segment producer)
• Before It Was True (2019) (producer)
• Love & Orgasms (2020) (producer)
• My Sun Sets to Rise Again (2020) (Short) (executive producer) / (producer)
• 618 to Omaha (Short) (2020) (producer) (post-production)
• To Live and Die and Live (2023) (producer)

Director

• 618 to Omaha (Short) (post-production)
• Love & Orgasms (2020)
• My Sun Sets to Rise Again (Short) (2020)
• Before It Was True (Short) (2019)
• USA in ICU (Documentary) (2010)

Writer

• Love & Orgasms (2020) (writer)
• My Sun Sets to Rise Again (2020) (Short)