Gia Rigoli is a Los Angeles-based Mexican-American film producer who made her producing debut at the age of 20 with the feature film, Rock Steady Row. The film premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and won both the Narrative Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best Narrative Film. Gia holds a BFA in Creative Producing from Chapman University and was mentored by Michael Apted. Her senior thesis film was a Student Academy Award Finalist.
Gia has been recognized for her talent by various film industry programs including Berlinale Talents, Project Involve Producing Fellowship, Sony Pictures Entertainment Fellowship, NALIP Producer’s Incubator Lab, PGA Create, and Rotterdam Producing Lab Fellowship. She is currently an inaugural fellow of Film Independent's Imaginar Producer's Residency. She founded Discordia, a production company, in 2020 with her frequent collaborators. Their work has received support from Locarno, Film Independent, The Gotham, Tribeca, PGA, and SFFilm.
Selected Awards
Film Independent Imaginar Producer's Residency (2023 - 2024)
Tribeca Untold Stories (2022)
Rotterdam Producing Lab Fellow (2022)
PGA Create Fellow (2021)
NALIP Producer Incubator Lab (2021)
Best Film, Anchorage - Oldenburg International Film Festival (2021)
Film Independent Fast Track (2020)
IFP Week No Borders International Co-Production Market (2020)
SFFilm Westridge Grant Winner (2020)
Sundance Institute Talent Forum (2020)
Venice Production Bridge (2019)
Berlinale Talents (2019)
Film Independent Project Involve (2019)
Sony Pictures Entertainment Fellowship (2019)
Student Academy Award Nominee (2018)
Narrative Grand Jury Prize, Rock Steady Row - Slamdance Film Festival (2018)
Audience Award for Best Narrative Film, Rock Steady Row - Slamdance Film Festival (2018)
Audience Award for Best Narrative Film, Rock Steady Row - Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (2018)
*Selected Filmography
Features
This Closeness, 2023 / Dir. Kit Zauhar
Plastico, 2022 / Dir. Veronica Kompalic
Anchorage, 2022 / Dir. Scott Monahan
Rock Steady Row, 2018 / Dir. Trevor Stevens
The Gospel According to Saint Mary, In Development / Dir. Veronica Kompalic
Paper Trail, In Development / Dir. Rachael Moton
The Weight of Land, In Development / Dir. Daniel Drummond
Shorts
Bloomed in the Water, 2024 / Dir. Joanne Mony Park
Plastico, 2023 / Dir. Veronica Kompalic
Scotty's Vag, 2023 / Dir. Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz
A Summer Job, 2023 / Dir. Joie Estrella Horwitz & Sergi Castella
October Mourning, 2023 / Dir. Frederick Thornton
GRRRL Guts, 2022 / Dir. Emily Cohn
Bottle Bomb!!!, 2021 / Dir. Frida Perez
Fernanda, 2021 / Dir. Mar Angelica Molina
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, 2021 / Dir. Rachael Moton
La Gloria, 2019 / Dir. Mary Evangelista
Swim, 2019 / Dir. Enrique Unzueta
