Chelsea Makela

Chelsea Makela is the Founder, Owner & CEO of MakeLA Production & Mgmt (aka Makela Productions) and former co-creator and Head of the Literary Department at Discover Management in Los Angeles, California where she sold their first feature film and several award winning new media shorts and streamers as well as overseeing award winning festival films, managing talent and content. Like many young artists Chelsea began performing in theatre & dramatic arts at a young age where she sang at Carnegie Hall at 13 years old.

Her career quickly took off in high school after filming a lead role in an AFI Women in Film project that went on to be distributed by BET & ASPIRE TV. After a short amount of time, she booked a lead role in the Paramount/MTV feature film "Dance Flick". This would allow her to work with & learn first hand from comedic & respected greats like: the Wayans Family, Affion Crockett, Al B.Sure & David Alan Grier.

Chelsea has worked in the Entertainment industry for over 20 years. She has collaborated, shadowed and worked with domestic and international brands like: Build-A-Bear, Boys & Girls Club, UCLA, American Girl Doll, Kohl's, Happy Socks & various Non- Profits like: UCSF Oakland Bennioff Hospital, Diablo Ballet: Northern, CA, SAMFund ( she was the: Head of Events & Locations for the Annual Gala & Fundraisers - a non-profit close to heart as she is a pediatric brain cancer survivor).

Since then she has had clients filming movies, collaborating with international brands, sold feature films & had multiple festival winning projects. Follow her & her clients appearances & accomplishments on her IG: @chelseamakela & her newly launched company IG @makelaprodmgmt