Cheryl Horner Sirulnick founded Gigantic! Productions in 2001 after several years of directing and producing at MTV. Her company has since created 14 episodes of the extremely popular and critically acclaimed MTV series True Life, many educational/ pro-social News & Docs specials, the hit two-hour documentary movies Fat Camp and Return to Fat Camp, and the acclaimed 2007 documentary I Won't Love You to Death: The Story of Mario and His Mom. Gigantic! Productions has also produced projects for CMT, VH1 and Apple iTunes.

Cheryl's program True Life: I'm a Beauty Queen was featured at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and selected for a Q&A session. Her MTV News program Hate in the Hallways was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding TV Journalism, and her work on MTV's Fight For Your Rights: Protect Yourself campaign was honored with a Peabody/ Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Programming. Her documentary True Life: I'm Addicted to Crystal Meth received a 2007 Prism Award for Best Teen Series or Special. She received a 2008 Prism Award for "I Won't Love You to Death" for its accurate depiction of drug abuse and addiction in a teen program. She was simultaneously nominated for the documentary "True Life: I'm Going to Rehab" in the same category. Cheryl has twice been a featured speaker at the National College Media Conference in New York, and was a panelist at the Picture This Conference on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Washington, DC.

In addition to her documentary work, Cheryl has ten years experience producing and directing political figures such as Senator Edward M. Kennedy and former presidential candidate Howard Dean, as well as celebrities such as Adam Sandler, Justin Timberlake, Reese Witherspoon, and Beyonce.

Prior to forming Gigantic! Productions, Cheryl Horner Sirulnick lived in Sydney, Australia where she was the Creative Director for movie channels Showtime & Encore. She also lived in Bucharest, Romania where she served as Creative Director for the launch of HBO Romania. She is originally from Florida and received a Bachelor of Arts from the highly selective New College.

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