Roy Campanella II is a multi-talented individual who has made a name for himself in the entertainment industry. As an award-winning director, writer, and producer, he has worked on a wide range of projects, including mainstream television and independent feature films.
Campanella's feature film, The Company We Keep, is an ensemble romantic comedy set in the music industry that won the Best Feature Film award at the Urban MediaMakers Film Festival in 2010. The film was also selected as one of the Big Eight films at the San Diego Black Film Festival in 2011 and received an impressive 89% audience approval rating at the Pan African Film Festival in 2011.
As President of Production for Kensington Media, Campanella is responsible for bringing the company's impressive literary resources to the entertainment media marketplace. He has also adapted his original screenplay, The Company We Keep, into a novel by best-selling author Mary Monroe, which was published by Kensington.
Campanella's credits include the celebrated PBS television movie, Brother Future, which earned him awards from the Directors Guild of America, the Columbus International Film Festival, and the National Black Programming Consortium. He has been honored twice by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, most recently 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.
Campanella has also directed numerous hours of prime time television series, including 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, which was nominated for a Directors Guild of America award. He has also directed numerous television movies, including Body of Evidence and Quiet Victory, as well as commercials for major brands such as Coca-Cola, Toyota, Crest, McDonalds, Tide, and Project for a Drug Free America.
Prior to his work in the entertainment industry, Campanella was a programming executive at CBS Movies and Mini-series, where he was responsible for handling a portfolio of twenty movies of the week from development through post-production.
Campanella 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.
