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Gabriel is also a decorated US Army Veteran who served as an Army video journalist (46R) from 2007-2011 which included deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (09-10) where he served with distinction with the 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment out of Fort Bragg, NC. While deployed to Afghanistan, Gabriel wrote and published a daily meditation book; Embrace The Suck: 366 Days of courage, strength, inspiration, wisdom and hope-featuring quotes from notable people past and present to help one through the challenges of military deployment and life itself.
Prior to joining the Army at the age of forty-one, Gabriel was a Brooklyn NY based freelancer who's past work includes MTV(most notably YO! MTV RAPS), VH1, Elektra Records, Russell Simmons/Stan Lathan Entertainment Group, The Source Magazine's All Access TV Show, National Black Programming Consortium, CURRENT TV and Sesame Street. His Sesame Street video; GET UP, GET OUT won an Emmy for Outstanding Original Song in a Children's/Animated Series for best song.
Gabriel's range of interests and expertise have led to a diverse portfolio. He also co-wrote and directed, "FLEECING LED ZEPPELIN", a short crime caper film based on true events involving one of Rock's greatest unsolved heists. The film has been added to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame's media archives and screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Harlem International Film Festival.
Gabriel co-authored the definitive pop culture book on trendy, ostentatious jewelry called BLING: THE HIP-HOP JEWELRY BOOK by Bloomsbury Press and wrote and co-produced MONDO BLACK, an artful 8 part documentary web series for PBS affiliate; Black Public Media. He directed behind the scenes and wrote show copy for the YO! MTV RAPS 30th Anniversary Experience at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY in June 2018. Gabriel was also a 2018-2019 Writers Guild Foundation fellow in their Veterans Writers Workshop. Gabriel is is currently a freelance producer for Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts' digital series; #ThriverThursday for which he received a 2019 Telly Award.
Gabriel's passion is creating content/programming across media platforms and diverse worlds as a self described, "creativemothership".
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Reviews
The Samaritan (2012)
Sam, I cram to understand...why???
This movie was awful. Those expecting Marcellus of Pulp Fiction Days or Carl Lee Hailey in a Time to Kill or even Lazarus from Black Snake Moan will be sorely disappointed. Sam, sometimes I cram to understand why is it quantity over quality with you? Yes, you are the hardest working man in Hollywood but you don't have to do every damn movie that comes your way. The Samaritan's plodding, meandering storyline with improbable/illogical plot points does not hold anything to the film noir of yesteryear. The only twist(spoiler alert) was incest and that was played for cheap effect. Do not pay 9.99 or even 13.50(if you live in NYC) to see this movie. I wonder if Sam might have dropped a bit from the 1% in having to do movies like this. Sam, your agent ran the grift on you when he passed this script along, Sam's agent, Elan Mastai and David Weaver grifted you, lastly folks out there-don't let this movie grift you.