Tonia Kempler Bio

Tonia Kempler is  a Producer/Director/Screenwriter, who lives in New York, though her roots run deep in a rural south still steeped in the occult traditions of the Gullah Geechee and the animism of the Cherokees. Surrounded and empowered by the lore and practices of these mystical cultures, Tonia leans toward macabre worlds with isolated, damaged, yet capable and empathic female leads. This personal connection drives her concentration on supernatural horror/ thrillers, and dark comedies, including features, pilots, shorts, web series, podcasts, and graphic novels.  

Her approach to storytelling and understanding audience engagement is fortified by a career in the Music Industry, including concert production and managing Grammy-award-winning producers, engineers, and songwriters.  

Tonia is the Founder of www.bellementertainment.com, a full-service entertainment company with a stable of Award-winning Filmmakers and Screenwriters delivering content in all formats across all genres. B3E's production company specializes in world-building and character development. Current projects include an Unscripted Docu-Reality TV Series (pilot available), and B3E will be filming a Found Footage Horror Feature in Spring 2022. 

Tonia’s recent accomplishments include a Top 10% Academy Nicholl’s script, a No. 1 best-selling comic, multi-award-winning short films, placement in Stowe TV Writer’s Room and Producer Lab, Page Awards, The Austin Film Festival, and the ScreenCraft Fellowship among others. 

Tonia is an inspired Top Tier Roadmap Writer and an active 51/50 international workshop member with the Academy of Film Writing. In addition, Tonia is an industry script reader for the Austin Film Festival, Stowe Story Labs, and Cinestory, among others. She heads the Diversity Scholarship for Roadmap Writers and her company Bellem Entertainment has several fellowships in place to aid diverse writers with their screenwriting careers.