GABRIEL COWAN | PRODUCER

Gabriel Cowan is an award winning filmmaker and the President of New Artists Alliance. His film CHEAP THRILLS won an audience award at SXSW 2013, where BAD MILO, a film he produced along side The Duplass Brothers also premiered. 2016 finds Cowan writing and directing Truck’d Up, a television pilot for Ted Field and Radar Films, producing GENESIS a Science Fiction television show by Steven Bochco and premiering FEAR INC (Abigail Breslin) at the Tribeca Film Festival where he also premiered LOITERING WITH INTENT (Sam Rockwell, Marisa Tomei) and JUST BEFORE I GO (Seann William Scott, Olivia Thirlby). Cowan is an IFP fellow for EXTRACTED, a film he co-wrote and produced that premiered at SXSW 2012. Since graduating CalArts in 2008 with an MFA in film directing, Cowan has produced over 20 feature films.

 

As a musician, Cowan earned two Platinum records and recorded with Jackson Brown, Robbie Robertson, The Tower Of Power, Ry Cooder, Van Dyke Parks and others. He serves on the board of Inside OutWriters, an organization that provides creative writing services to kids in juvenile hall and is on the advisory committee of Common Sense Media and organization dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology which has over 65 million users.