Bio

Gina Yull, a proud Champan University alum, has directed and written several horror shorts including Game Night, The Powers That Be which premiered at the prestigious horror film festival ScreamFest,  and most recently The Shell (written by Mike Lera),  which is currently  in the process of making it’s festival run. She has a vast array of experience including being the current producing director’s assistant 9-1-1 (starring Angela Basset), being the producing director’s assistant on L.A.’s Finest (starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba) and shadowing a director on season 2 of Castle Rock. She was selected for Blackmagic Collective’s First Frame Initiative as one of 8 filmmakers and spent the year working on the craft and business of filmmaking. Currently, she is prepping to direct Tales From The Other Side (a horror anthology series written by all black women). She also wrote her first feature film The Harvesters, which she got the opportunity to pitch at AFM, and plans to direct in the future.

From a young age Gina knew she was a storyteller. She wrote stories about everything from being a princess saved by a knight in shining armor to stuffed animals coming to life to protect her from monsters; she even created her own fake alphabet. But it was when she sent her first haunted tale to R.L. Stine at age 8 that her love for horror was truly established and she’s been involved in the genre one way or another ever since. She has been called “the female Jordan Peele” and she happily wears that badge of honor.

Passionate about all things horror.

A supporter of diversity in front of and behind the camera.

A creator of unapologetic productions.