From America's finest city (San Diego) and now residing in the entertainment capital of the world ( Los Angeles), Cassandra Pimentel is a Filipina American Director/Writer most known for her festival selected short film Plaza Blvd (2017), the web series It’s Not You, It’s Me (2014) starring Yoshi Sudarso (Nickelodeon’s Power Rangers Dino Charge) and Chris Dinh (Comfort, Wong Fu Productions' Single by 30) and MyxTV's original digital series A.S.S. - A Scary Sleepover (2018) starring Thia Megia (American Idol, NBC's Days of Our Lives). Plaza Blvd premiered at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and to name a few, it was also a finalist at the FACINE Philippine Arts & Cinema International Film Festival and Los Angeles Cinefest.
Cassandra strives to incorporate culture and diversity in her projects; her short film, Battle of the Sticks (2016) starring Niko Del Rey (The Filharmonic), shares the Filipino cultural dance, Tinikling.
Cassandra built her feature film experience as the First Assistant Director on the film Chalk It Up (NETFLIX) in 2014 , and from 2016 to 2017 she assisted Producer Deborah Del Prete (Wedding Planner, Ender’s Game) in producing the feature film Locating Silver Lake starring Josh Peck (Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh) and Finn Wittrock (LA LA Land, American Horror Story).
Recently, The Filharmonic released a Christmas music video featuring Spencer Ludwig which Cassandra had the pleasure of directing. Also she directed a live talk show on MyxTV - And We're Live starring Trace Gaynor and Farina Aguinaldo in the late fall of 2018. Currently, she is in post production for the short film Morning Beautiful starring Dia Frampton (The Voice, Meg and Dia).
Cassandra believes in the power of storytelling and the power of representation. She aims to share diversity and add in more culture to mainstream media.
