Sabrina Oertle · Founder & Executive Producer

Thirty years behind the chair.

Producer and line producer. Founder of Blue Chair Productions Inc. Music videos for Ozzy Osbourne, Ministry and Billy Morrison. Campaigns for Jaguar, Range Rover and Porsche. Series for Facebook Watch and VisionTV.

Los Angeles · Santa Barbara Est. 2004 Producer · Line Producer · UPM · Writer
Sabrina Oertle

Photo: Power Bost Photography

Every format shift

35mm to 16mm to 8mm.

Tape to Final Cut Pro.

The road here

From the Inland Empire to Hollywood

By way of a District Attorney’s office, years of Santa Barbara commercials and short films, and a run of music videos that put Ozzy Osbourne in front of the camera.

  1. Before

    Ontario, Inland Empire

    From Ontario, in the Inland Empire. A job at the District Attorney’s office came before production did.

  2. 1999

    First credits

    Producer on the shorts The Uninvited, The Innocents Mission, A Chance Meeting and Serial, and unit production manager on A Chance Meeting, between 1999 and 2003.

  3. 2004

    Blue Chair Productions Inc.

    Founded in Santa Barbara, producing commercials with short films alongside: Ted Mills’ The Night of the Falcon and Revenge of the Falcon, which went on to play festivals at home and abroad.

  4. 2009

    Santa Barbara, on camera

    The Flute Player with D.A. Metrov, shot around Santa Barbara, Goleta and UCSB. Executive producer of the multimedia peace project I Wish Everyday Was Christmas, recorded at Santa Barbara Sound. Festival coverage at SBIFF 2009.

  5. 2014–18

    Inland Empire and beyond

    Producer, then director and editor, at the 48 Hour Film Project Inland Empire. Two spots for MUNDO, NBCUniversal’s Latino channel. Field producer on the California leg of VisionTV’s Longevity Road Trip.

  6. 2021

    Kontaxt

    Co-producer and location manager on the Facebook Watch action comedy starring King Bach: a pilot plus eight episodes. The following year Blue Chair Productions Inc. set up in Hollywood.

  7. 2023–24

    Six videos, two years

    Lynch Mob’s Time After Time and The Banishment’s Got What You Wanted, then Ministry’s B.D.E. and New Religion, and Billy Morrison’s Drowning and Crack Cocaine, the last with Ozzy Osbourne and Steve Stevens and now past 8.9 million views.

  8. Now

    Features

    Feature development out of the Hollywood office. The slate is shared on request. Get in touch.

Selected credits

Producer unless noted. Titles with a still open on the home page.

Music videos

Commercials & campaigns

  • Jaguar · Range Rover · Porsche Producer Commercial campaigns
  • 2016 MUNDO (NBCUniversal), TV spots 1 & 2 Producer Two spots for the Latino channel
  • Cable One Producer Shot in Santa Barbara County

Television

  • 2021 Kontaxt Co-Producer / Location Manager Facebook Watch · pilot + 8 episodes
  • 2018 Longevity Road Trip Producer, California segment VisionTV · S1E2, Silicon Valley and the Blue Zones

Short films

  • 2015 48 Hour Film Project Inland Empire Producer, Director, Editor
  • 2014 The 48 Hour Film Project Inland Empire Producer
  • 2009 The Flute Player Producer, Line Producer Dir. D.A. Metrov · with Traveling Bear Productions
  • 2007 Revenge of the Falcon Producer Dir. Ted Mills · domestic and international festivals
  • 2005 The Night of the Falcon Producer Dir. Ted Mills
  • 2003 Serial Producer
  • 2001 A Chance Meeting Producer, UPM Dir. Jim Clark · written by Vickie Patik
  • 2000 The Innocents Mission Producer
  • 1999 The Uninvited Producer

Also

  • 2009 “I Wish Everyday Was Christmas” Executive Producer Multimedia peace project with Patrick Maiani · Santa Barbara Sound
  • 2009 Hold It Like a Baby Production Coordinator
  • 2001 Duality Publicist Alamo Studios

Full filmography on IMDb. Reels on Vimeo.

Blue Chair Productions Inc. is based in Hollywood, with deep roots in Santa Barbara.

Based Hollywood Blue Chair Productions Inc. Music videos, campaigns and feature development from Los Angeles.
Roots Santa Barbara Founded here in 2004. Commercials and short films shot from Goleta to the Riviera.

Two places, one continuous body of work.