Marcella Ochoa

Marcella was born in San Antonio, Texas and started off her career in entertainment in the International Publicity department for Sony Pictures. She was later hired as a development executive at producer Harald Kloser's production company. She worked closely with Kloser and his producing partner, Roland Emmerich, on several film and TV projects. She decided to pursue her career as a filmmaker and eventually left to start her own production company. She wrote and directed a short film, My Name is Maria de Jesus, that's based on the true story of the Americanization process her family went through growing up in Texas. The film premiered on HBO Latino and she did a national university speaking tour with her short film where she screened the film and spoke to the students on campus. She received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a TV Movie for the film Madres.