Savannah Abrishamchian

Savannah Abrishamchian is a Queer Iranian American artist with over eight years of experience across the arts with a focus in literary and visual storytelling. As a born and bred Angeleno, music, photography, poetry, film, and television became the soundtrack to her life. Battling a rollercoaster of several conditions since age 12, including fibromyalgia and OCD, Savannah was inspired to rewire her body's challenges into a creative super power. Her resilience paved opportunities in content curation, film, and TV from Spotify to CAA, I Am Jenni Konner Productions, and Monkeypaw Productions.

Savannah spent four years in Development and Production at Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions, most recently as a Jr. Exec, Development Coordinator. Savannah project managed with an artist- and diversity-first lens having forged special relationships with up and comers and highly sought out filmmakers. For all projects she was fortunate to see through pitch prep for buyers and potential green light, thus being instrumental throughout every part of the process: artist pursuit, ideation, pitch curation, deck materials, project packaging, pre-pro, production, post, marketing, and release. While at Monkeypaw, she served as the Producer's Assistant to Chris Rosati on Season 2 of HUNTERS and THE LAST O.G.'s final season, and named, curated, and produced The New York Times Best Seller short story collection OUT THERE SCREAMING: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW BLACK HORROR Edited by Jordan Peele. 

Previously, she earned a BA in English from University of San Diego where she was dedicated to flash fiction, poetry, photography, and literary magazine production. Post-college, Savannah first blossomed as Spotify's Jr. Writer for the ¡Viva Latino! Video Playlist writing short-docu style content for artists such as Ricky Martin and Demi Lovato. Soon after, she landed in CAA's TV Scripted department under Tony Etz and later served as the right hand to Jenni Konner where she started her journey in development. 

Savannah maintains her creative pulse as an Independent Filmmaker and Producer committed to stories on loss and worlds that blend reality with the beyond. With an upbringing driven by the arts, she aims to embrace music as the undercurrent and special ingredient to her inventive worlds. Her genre specialities include and are not limited to dark comedy, drama, magical realism, surrealism, body horror, grounded sci-fi, etc. She is a self-taught cinephile and natural empath using various mediums such as photography and poetry as points of entry into bigger worlds for the screen. While Savannah's own works may toe the line between the depths of the dark versus laughing at or critiquing the self, she aims to find light and warmth in stories that might be drenched in darkness and self-brutalism.