Tamela D'Amico movie list
Tamela D'Amico is an American recording artist, actress, filmmaker and model/social influencer for many major International brands. She launched La Strega Entertainment, and then Bellona Entertainment, to create vehicles for the many facets of her career.
D'Amico is also known as one of the top 20 finalists on the FOX reality show On the Lot produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett. She garnered attention from the show's producers with her heartwarming entry film entitled Volare, starring Federico Castelluccio (The Sopranos), which led her to a first-look deal with Dreamworks. D'Amico produced and directed the television series Sex Ed:The Series starring Joanna Cassidy (Bladerunner) which garnered much TV press and accolades and boasts over 150 Million views on YouTube. The show received nominations for both a Streamy Award and a Webby Award and TV Guide listed it in the top 10 of notable television shows worth watching. She has gone on to create other several TV web serials and has many feature film projects in development through the BELLONA Entertainment banner. Two recent projects that she directed and co-directed, respectively, have recently gone viral on the net, "WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN" (30 years after Blade Runner, actress Joanna Cassidy resurrects her character Zhora to do the reptile dance that Ridley Scott never got to film for the movie.) and Trump: You Got Trouble.
As an actress , D'Amico recurs on the hit Disney Channel show Best Friends Whenever, as nemesis Janet Smythe. After spending the last two years filming the Indian drama One Little Finger, in India, a film in which she stars as the lead, and promotes the theme "Ability in Disability" for having employed over 80 disabled actors, she returned from the Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered. One Little Finger, directed by Rupam Sarmah will be spreading its message as it tours the festival circuit and will go onto Amazon and all streaming platforms in 2020. She can also be seen in the recently released feature film WALT BEFORE MICKEY with Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie) and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) about the life of Walt Disney and is currently filming the independent film QUINN as well as just finished the independent film 3 People I've Never Heard Of. She stars in the award winning web series Englishman in L.A. with actors Cameron Moir (Non Stop), Eddie Jemison (HUNG, Oceans 11, 12,13) and Ashley Fink (Glee) for which she was just awarded "Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Web Series" by LA WEB FEST. D'Amico can be heard singing the Bond-esque theme song "Love and the Gun" in both English and Italian in the recently released feature film Rob the Mob (Millennium Films/Lakeshore Records) directed by Raymond De Felitta (City Island) now streaming on NETFLIX.
D'Amico recorded her debut album Got A Little Story, executive-produced by actor-producer Peter Krause (Parenthood, Six Feet Under, 911) and produced by 6 time Grammy Award winner Jimmy Hoyson, and arranged by Multi Grammy nominee Chris Walden at Capitol Records Studios under the La Strega Entertainment banner. The album has been picked up by LML Records/SONY (The Orchard) distribution and went into worldwide release and is available wherever fine music is sold. She can be heard on over 140 national radio and cable outlets in various jazz based/Adult Standard & Contemporary markets as well as many International radio and internet streaming markets. She was named Clear Channel's Best New Jazz Vocalist, the relaunched MySpace's Rising Star, and is in constant rotation on The Penthouse Radio Network, Martini in the Morning, and MUSIC CHOICE's Singer and Swingers channel via satellite, cable, & Internet. D'Amico executive produced an album for 2013 Grammy Winner Billy Vera (known for the hit "At This Moment") entitled BILLY VERA: BIG BAND JAZZ (released on Varese Sarabande/Universal). She also duets with Mr. Vera on the album on the song "I'll Never Be Free," which has been a radio favorite.
D'Amico has been solely focused on her acting and filmmaking, which has been a daily endeavor as brand ambassador and content creator/social influencer to many International brands through her influence on all social media platforms