Biographie
Roy Campanella II is an award-winning director, writer, and producer, who's creative work includes mainstream television and independent feature films. His feature film, The Company We Keep, an ensemble romantic comedy set in the music industry, was honored with the Best Feature Film award from the Urban MediaMakers Film Festival 2010. The Company We Keep was also selected as one of the Big Eight films at the San Diego Black Film Festival 2011 and received an 89% audience approval rating based on independent testing done at the Pan African Film Festival 2011.
As President of Production for Kensington Media, Campanella is focused on bringing the impressive literary resources of Kensington Publishing to the entertainment media marketplace. Campanella's original screenplay of The Company We Keep has been adapted into a novel by best-selling author, Mary Monroe, and published by Kensington.
Campanella's credits include the celebrated PBS television movie, Brother Future, which earned him awards from the prestigious Directors Guild of America, Columbus International Film Festival, and the National Black Programming Consortium. He has twice been honored by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame; most recently winning an award for his cable feature, Masquerade, a popular urban romantic comedy.
In a groundbreaking deal, Campanella was chosen to produce ten cable features for Black Entertainment Television (BET) and the Home Entertainment market. He produced the entire slate and directed three of the movies: Masquerade, Rendezvous, and Playing With Fire.
Among Campanella's long list of directing credits are more than one hundred hours of prime time television series such as Boston Public, Beverly Hills 90210, Oprah Winfrey's The Women of Brewster Place, Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman, Dallas, Knot's Landing, Falcon Crest, Baywatch, Frank's Place, and I'll Fly Away (DGA nominated); numerous television movies such as Body of Evidence and Quiet Victory, and commercials for Coca-Cola, Toyota, Crest, McDonalds, Tide, and Project for a Drug Free America.
Prior to the above, as a programming executive at CBS Movies and Mini-series, Campanella was the network liaison on a portfolio of twenty movies of the week; handling each project from development through post-production.
Campanella, son of the Hall of Fame Brooklyn Dodger, graduated with honors from Harvard University and earned an MBA from Columbia University where he received the Louis G. Cowan award for excellence in Media Management.
