Brazilian-born producer/writer/director Deborah Calla has been working in the entertainment industry for the past 10 years.

Deborah’s latest effort is www.theloveprojectinc.com, a website dedicated to essays, blogs and videos celebrating love and dialoguing life.

She is the co-writer and producer of A BEAUTIFUL LIFE (release date October 2nd 2009) directed by Alejandro Chomski and starring Dana Delany, Debi Mazar, Jesse Garcia, Angela Sarafyan and Bai Ling; LOST ZWEIG (co-producer) starring Rudigler Vogler; DREAM HOUSE (producer) starring Justin Theroux.

She’s also the producer and writer of Carnival in Rio - 2004 a Travel Channel documentary narrated by Anne Archer; the producer of Carnival in Rio - 2003 a co-production with Terry Jastrow, a seven-time Emmy winner; the writer/producer/director of Chicano Artists for HBO Latino, producer of a number of programs for TNT Brasil, FOX Latin America, and many commercial campaigns.

Deborah is a member of the Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival, the Brazilian film programmer of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (2005 - 2006) the co-chair of the Diversity Workshop of the Producers Guild of America and the writer of two books for Putnam and one for Scholastic.

Blog Entries by Deborah Calla

Madonna, Kabbalah, And Spiritual Trends

Posted December 3, 2009 | 05:29 PM (EST)


So I’m here in my native town Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, producing a Canadian film.  About two weeks ago Madonna was in town collecting money for SFK and her Raising Malawi charity.  SFK stands for Spirituality For Kids, a Kabbalah Center effort and Raising Malawi is a Madonna, Michael Berg...

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Owning My Own Sex

3 Comments | Posted November 23, 2009 | 06:10 PM (EST)


While reading Lisa Guest’s post on her sex journey through her adulthood I thought about my own.

I have been sexually active since a very young age.  At that time I had a boyfriend who I loved with all the heart of a tween and he loved me back...

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Death And Dying: Nature Is Selfish, Get Over It

17 Comments | Posted November 12, 2009 | 01:33 PM (EST)


I have always thought when people passed away that the ones left behind cried for the fact they would not have the person they loved in their lives any longer. The truth is we cry for not having that person but we also cry for all they will never get to do and...

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The Heath Insurance Dance

4 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 03:40 PM (EST)


A few weeks ago I read an article in the LA Times about a man, Epham Nehme, suing Blue Cross because the insurance company had denied his request for a liver transplant outside his network even though Ephram was told by his UCLA doctor to leave LA for a center...

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The Difference Between My Dog And Me

15 Comments | Posted October 28, 2009 | 11:48 AM (EST)


When I leave my house my dog sits outside my office door and waits for me.  He sees me go out the front door but he goes outside in the backyard, where my office is, and sits by my locked door.  He does that because during the day that’s where...

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Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People

3 Comments | Posted October 20, 2009 | 12:02 PM (EST)


I don’t have a clue.  Seriously, I don’t have the faintest.  To me life contains as much randomness as purpose.  Shit happens as they say, and anyone that says that you can control what happens in your life by only having positive thoughts is lying.  The bottom line is that...

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Step Aside For Anger

Posted October 14, 2009 | 03:48 PM (EST)


Anger, I know it so well.  I lived with it for a very long time and have claimed it as a kin of mine.  It got my heart rate and blood pressure up, and it got my adrenaline, and noradrenaline up. “Never” and “always” were our code words and justified...

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A Love Letter To My Husband

46 Comments | Posted October 7, 2009 | 02:18 PM (EST)


I have now been a widow for fourteen months.  I loved my husband as I have never loved anyone in my life before.  When we met it was like we both had won the lottery -- neither one of us perfect but perfect for each other. 

My loss is...

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A Beautiful Life

7 Comments | Posted September 29, 2009 | 06:54 PM (EST)


A Beautiful Life, a film that I produced and co-wrote with Wendy Hammond, opens on October 2nd in limited release and stars Jesse Garcia, Angela Sarafyan, Bai Ling, Dana Delany, and Debi Mazar.

The film deals with sexual abuse, love and violence. I'm not going to give the plot away except...

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The Magic Of Kissing

1 Comments | Posted September 22, 2009 | 12:19 PM (EST)


I was getting my nails done when I saw a couple kissing across the street.  As I knew I was going to be hostage to my chair and without the use of my hands for the next thirty minutes, I became enthralled in their kissing which led me to think...

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Honesty, A Tall But Necessary Order

Posted September 13, 2009 | 04:17 PM (EST)


Honesty is speaking truth and creating trust in minds of others. – Wikipedia

I would also add that honesty is a way of life.  I’m not talking about giving money back when someone gives us the wrong change or returning a wallet we found on...

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Love Thyself

3 Comments | Posted September 10, 2009 | 05:07 PM (EST)


Today I read an Oprah.com article on CNN.com (here) about self-esteem. 

I don’t know if issues of self-esteem are more prevalent among women but I could certainly identify with the writer. 

I’ve been working on my own issue of self-esteem for a very long time.  People that...

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Beware of Quick Fixes

7 Comments | Posted September 5, 2009 | 05:47 PM (EST)


My husband used to tell me all the time that I have no patience.  He always said: “you just did such and such, give it time.”

I’m always in a hurry.  I do something and I want to see results.  Maybe that’s why when I first landed in NYC at...

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What My Late Husband's Organ Transplant Taught Me About the Health Industry

11 Comments | Posted September 2, 2009 | 08:39 PM (EST)


CNN is investigating organ trafficking in this country and abroad. Here is a video interview with an Israeli organ broker.

Drew Griffin, the interviewer, says: "And listen how cold he thinks about the donor." And then at some point Drew says to...

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