Gabrielle Demeestere was born and raised in Paris, France. She is a New York-based filmmaker. Demeestere attended New York University's MFA Film Program. She holds a BA in Literature from Yale and an MFA in filmmaking from NYU. While there she collaborated with James Franco and eleven other student filmmakers to co-direct The Color of Time, a film on the life of poet C.K. Williams that starred James Franco, Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain. The film premiered at the 2012 Rome Film Festival.