Storm City is a film production and finance company created to celebrate and support emerging voices. We help tell stories that speak to what it is to be human.

If You Were the Last

Directed by Kris Mercado

Available to stream on Peacock

Linoleum

Directed by Colin West (2022)

The host of a failing children's science TV show attempts to fulfill his childhood dream of being an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, all while trying to makes sense of surreal events around him.

The Giant

Directed by David Raboy (2019)

Mysterious murders plague a small Georgia town when a young man returns home to reunite with his girlfriend. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival.

Who We Are

Dennis Masel

Dennis Masel is an award winning producer with films premiering at Toronto International Film Festival, San Sebastian, and SXSW. His most recent film, Linoleum, starring Jim Gaffigan, premiered at SXSW to rave reviews and has gone on to win Best Narrative Feature at the Sun Valley Film Festival and the Sloan Prize at the 2022 San Francisco Film Festival. 

Driven by his deep rooted love of story telling in all forms, Masel launched Storm City as an independent film finance and production company with his producing partner, Gabrielle Nadig in 2020. Storm City’s features explore keystones of the human condition: love, honor, compassion, pride and justice. Their projects are focused on narratives that highlight the adventure and journey of being human leaving us, in the end, with an affirmation of the rapture and joy of life; and all of its foibles, pitfalls and triumphs. 

Prior to Storm City, Dennis was a co-founder of Creative Circle, a company he started from his Brooklyn walk up and turned into the largest and most respected Creative Staffing agency in North America. 

Gabrielle Nadig

Gabrielle Nadig is an award winning independent film producer. Her previous work includes LITTLE WOODS (NEON 2019, Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Award Winner 2018) starring Tessa Thompson & Lily James, STANDING UP, FALLING DOWN (Shout! Factory 2020), starring Billy Crystal & Ben Schwartz, and THE SUNLIT NIGHT (Sundance 2019, available on Hulu) starring Jenny Slate and Zach Galifianakis. Gabrielle co-executive produced Netflix’s OUTSIDE THE WIRE (released 2021) starring Anthony Mackie in 2019. In 2018 Gabrielle co-executive produced THE WOLF HOUR (Sundance 2019), starring Naomi Watts. Her first feature KING JACK premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, where it took home the Narrative Audience Award. 

Gabrielle is a 2013 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, a 2016 Women at Sundance Fellow, and a 2019 nominee for the Film Independent Spirit Award Producers Award. From 2010 until 2017 Gabrielle was the Executive Producer at Buffalo Picture House, a Brooklyn based commercial production company where she produced and directed award winning work for brands such as Gucci, Stewart Weitzman, HGTV, and IFC.