Italia Gandolfo
Founder/CEO
Founder & CEO of Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management, Gandolfo has over 25 years’ experience in media including Film/TV, publishing, PR, and advertising. She began her career in the entertainment industry at CAA, a Big 3 talent agency, during the tenure of Michael Ovitz. She researched classified projects while coordinating and assembling development information (domestic and foreign) for talent agents, writers, directors, producers, actors etc., and oversaw the agency’s library of confidential screenplays and manuscripts.
She later served as Director of Business Development for Los Angeles based multimedia company, Meteor 17, raising capital for film, stage, and music projects. Gandolfo also worked as a Senior Adviser to the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition alongside prominent members such as Dr. Jane Goodall and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The SBYC was the largest youth-led environmental organization in the world with a network of more than 6 million members in over 75 countries.
She considers clients by referral only, and has a no-response-means-no policy.