Urban Tales is a full production services boutique. We nurture each project from development to completion. We develop the script, put together a solid production package, structure finance, hire cast and crew and oversee production through post-production. Based per project we can also secure sales agent or distribution. We do all of the above while keeping a physically responsible budget and maintaining our creative signature.
While we have in-house talent and work on developing our own materials, we are always on the lookout for new projects. We are open to co-productions in all genres.
Gabrielle Almagor
Gabrielle Almagor is an award-winning producer and casting director with experience in packaging, development, post supervision, deliverables, distribution, and festival strategy. Raised in a 3rd generation Hollywood family, she spent her early years on sets, working alongside her father and learning from showbiz legends Dick Clark, Bob Barker and Chuck Barris on television shows like American Bandstand, The Gong Show and The Price is Right. Gabrielle strives to create emotionally moving and purposeful tapestries with her casting. She believes the story is everything and the art of filmmaking is both a creative process and a life journey. Gabrielle thrives in packaging and specializes in the glorious world of cast and finance. Hard work, kindness and honesty are the creeds she has carried through the last two decades in this industry.
Stars that Gabrielle has brought to the screen are: Britt Robertson, Amy Smart, Jaimie Pressley ( The Re-Education Of Molly Singer), Lucy Hale (Mort In Sherman Oaks), Dylan Sprouse, Virginia Gardner (Trigger Happy), Good Side of A Bad Man (Emile Hirsch, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Jane and Ashley Benson), Hounds Of War (Frank Grillo), The Locksmith (Ryan Phillippe, Kate Bosworth, Ving Rhames), The Doorman (Jean Reno, Ruby Rose), Willy’s Wonderland (Nicholas Cage), Peel (Emile Hirsch), Thirteen Minutes (Amy Smart, Anne Heche, Paz Vega), 1st Born (Val Kilmer) and dozens more; along with TV shows such as Michael Polish’s Bring on The Dancing Horses ( Kate Bosworth), Real Rob (Rob Schneider, David Spade, Adam Sandler - Netflix) and America (Rani Sa’ar, Morris Cohen- Israeli TV).
Gabrielle has also worked closely with Miles Teller and Sam Worthington.
Gabrielle teaches an American University of Paris graduate school module that she developed called Urban Tales: The art of documentary filmmaking. Gabrielle spear-headed one student's film to The Academy Awards, student section, as a semifinalist currently.
Tomer Almagor was born in Israel and traveled extensively, before studying film in NY. He is an award-winning filmmaker and accomplished screenwriter who frequently gets commissioned to write screenplays in various genres. Tomer is the creative director at UTP where he is developing and producing alongside his partner Gabrielle, a slate of films.
In his free time, Tomer always thinks about ways to change the world for future generations through story-telling and cause campaigns.
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time.”
– Andrei Tarkovsky