About Gabriela Lugo

Gabriela Revilla Lugo is a Writer, Producer, Director, and the founder of Revek Entertainment. In 2013, she produced Damien Chazelle’s short film, Whiplash, which won the Sundance Jury Selection Short Film Award. The following year, Lugo produced Warner Bros and Blumhouse’s, The Gallows, which was made for $250K and grossed over $40M domestic. Producing high quality, low budget concepts became her calling card. 

In addition to traditional media platforms, Lugo also has extensive experience in the emerging VR space. She was a producer on, Gone, a project for distribution on the Samsung VR platform, produced in conjunction with David Alpert and Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment. She also produced the Tribeca VR darling, Holidays, directed by Scott Stewart and starring Seth Green.

In 2016, Lugo was the Executive Producer of the highly anticipated film, The Tribes of Palos Verdes, starring Jennifer Garner. The following year, she was a producer on Burden, starring Forest Whitaker and Tom Wilkinson's, both produced by frequent collaborator, Robbie Brenner of The Dallas Buyers Club. Tribes sold to IFC and Burden took home the Audience Award at Sundance in 2018, with a projected fall release date. Under Lugo’s guidance, Revek Entertainment oversaw physical production with Hyde Park Entertainment on Followers, a feature cast with top social media influencers. Lugo’s company has aided in a number of production efforts including Molly’s Game, directed by Aaron Sorkin that stars Jessica Chastain . She’s worked with other top companies such as Paramount, Netflix, MTV, Universal, Blumhouse and many more. In the summer of 2018 she announced exclusively to Deadline, The Last Weekend in May, directed by Matthew Lillard and starring Lucy Liu and Thomas Sadowski.

Revilla Lugo is a graduate of the Fox Writers Intensive program and the Writers Assistant Network program. Her short film, Molly’s Method has been nominated for awards at multiple film festivals including one for best director and best screenplay. While her company continues to produce high concept, low budget films, Lugo has been predominantly focused on strategic partnership for her own material. She predominantly writes one hour dramedies and features in the Latino space, characterized by strong, complicated female characters.