Tory Tunnell
Tory Tunnell is a Los Angeles based producer who runs Safehouse Pictures with her producing partner, Joby Harold. The company was co-founded in 2005.
Tunnell and Harold have become known for being driven filmmaker and talent friendly producers who champion stories and characters with a strong point of view - across all genre . From Guy Ritchie’s starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law to the breakout comedy of SXSW My Blind Brother starring Adam Scott, Nick Kroll, and Jenny Slate to the critical hit tv show, Underground about slaves escaping the south, to the ice skating drama Spinning Out currently in production starring Kaya Scodelario and January Jones and Johnny Weir, the company has shown an agile ability to produce a wide range of content . Harold and Tunnell have a number of films in development including Liberators with Michael B. Jordan attached to star at Warner Bros, Battle of Britain that Ridley Scott is attached to direct for Fox Wink that is loosely based on Tunnell’s own experiences of online dating as her mother, Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut and true story drama Love Canal, limited series Mary’s Mosaic to be written by Oscar winning writer David Seidler for Warner Bros, among others
Originally based in New York, Tunnell began her career producing independent features including; Holy Rollers starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha which premiered at Sundance 2009; Trumbo starring Liam Neeson, Michael Douglas, Joan Allen, Nathan Lane, and Donald Sutherland, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival 2007; and Awake written and directed by Joby Harold starring Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, and Terrence Howard
Tunnell graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University and now resides in Los Angeles with Harold and their 3 children
