Deborah Giarratana
Founder / Producer
Over the last 20 years Deborah has been at the forefront of the emerging high-end visual effects and animation industry. She began building film business for Pacific Data Images which went on to become Dreamworks Animation. She then went to work with James Cameron's company, Digital Domain and billed millions of dollars in revenue up through the release of TITANIC.
Deborah is now going on her 8th year producing & managing film business for Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPIDERMAN franchise, IAM LEGEND, WATCHMAN, G-FORCE and the upcoming ALICE IN WONDERLAND), one of the leading visual effects and animation companies in the world. She's had a rewarding experience working with such filmmakers as Sam Raimi, Zack Snyder, Tim Burton among others.
As a producer with Susana Zepeda, she is currently in active development on THE SURROGATE at Twentieth Century Fox with Paul Verhoeven directing, as well as SOPHIE TUCKER at Sony Pictures Animation. Deborah is also developing 90 CHURCH with Lorenzo DiBonaventura Pictures, which is based on the true life story of a rookie agent in a special ops agency formed to stop drugs at any cost in the early years of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics before the DEA was formed.
Deborah is also in active development with Lloyd Silverman (SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS) to produce TIGER RISING, written by award-winning children's author Kate DiCamillo. Her husband, Ray Giarratana, an award winning commercial director (COKE, HALLMARK, BUDWEISER and PONTIAC to name a few) has written and will direct the script inspired by Kate's masterpiece.
In the last year, Deborah sold the life rights to the Rev. Sam Childers story and oversaw the publishing of his book, ANOTHER MAN'S WAR, about Sam's life and present work in Africa. Known as the machine gun preacher, Sam is a former biker gang member who is courageously rescuing orphaned children, some of them child soldiers, from the war-torn rebel territory of Sudan. Deborah, along with producing partner, Robbie Brenner, is currently in active development on a major motion picture about this amazing story that will be directed by Marc Forster starring Gerald Butler to begin filming in the spring 2010 with Relativity Media.
Prior to her work in the entertainment industry, Deborah was on staff for 8 years at Grace Church of Kendall, in Miami, Florida, as an associate pastor overseeing the singles ministries mobilizing them to get involved on a global level. She orchestrated local & international outreaches. She arranged multiple trips to Honduras, Costa Rica, Columbia, the Bahamas and Jamaica.